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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:08:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 28 Apr 2024 18:24:43 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On 28 Apr 2024 17:53:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> 
>> It was the day eeePC came along, the new version of Windows couldn't
>> run on it, only the old unavailable version could. But the last version
>> of Ubuntu was running very well. And the eeePC with Ubuntu sold very
>> well and seeing that Microsoft extended the old version of Windows.
>> That way, people could buy eeePC with Windows on it.
> 
> The Eee PC 4G Surf was first released with Xandros.
> 
> ... I can't imagine XP on that hardware.

I have an original-model Eee 701 with Xandros on it, still here in this 
office. I was able to put Kubuntu on an SD card and boot off that, without 
disturbing the Xandros install. Kind of fun to see KDE 4 with all those 3D 
effects running at fully-interactive speeds, when newly-released Vista 
could manage its “Aero Glass” equivalent only on higher-end, much more 
expensive hardware.

Microsoft revived XP specifically to fight back against the Linux 
netbooks. Whereas my Eee booted off an SSD, I think they had to have hard 
drives for the Windows versions. Because Windows couldn’t run without a 
swap file, and continual writing to the swap file would shorten the life 
of an SSD.