Linux vs Windows

What do you think boots faster a 3.4GHz dual core hyper threading workstation booting Windows 7 or an Eee PC 900 netbook booting Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 5?

Seamus Byrne and Ruslan Kogan himself take a look at the Kogan Agora Netbook in the Midnight Update studio. Seamus begins with a quick review of the netbook's hardware and Ruslan continues with a look at the Ubuntu based gOS (Good OS) operating system.

This is a very entertaining video by Fonero Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, who founded seven companies in the past 20 years. Martin demonstrates his trilingual MSI Wind netbook and the 3 operating systems Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP, and Ubuntu he installed on the Wind.

Every time I browse news on Linux I come across headlines implying that war is going on between Linux and Windows. This always leaves me a bit puzzled as most of the free software people I have met or read about are rather peaceful and open-minded, though there are exceptions who like to play with guns.

I just checked whether the new Dell Mini 12 is available with Ubuntu Linux. The Linux powered Dell Mini 9 netbook has been comparably successfully considering that one third of the sold units where shipped with Ubuntu Netbook Remix, as Dell’s Jay Pinkert told LAPTOP Magazine about two weeks ago.