Most laptops are sold without the price of Microsoft Windows displayed before the consumer buys it. This is an issue if you want to use another piece of software on your laptop, such another version of Microsoft Windows, or Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or OpenSolaris. In an answer given by Commissioner Kuneva to Belgian MEP Saïd El Khadraoui (PSE), there is a mention of two decisions pending at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) related to this issue...
The weighty, from 3.88kg (with one HDD) machines come with a nine-cell "85Whr" battery. Operating system? Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS are the pre-load options.
I’m living the dream, I tell you! I’ve swapped my MacBook for a Dell Mini and so far the experience has been pretty positive.
The Eee Box B202, with an Intel Atom N270 CPU at 1.6 GHz, is available at around $300 for the Windows XP version with 1 GByte RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard drive. The Linux/Easy OS version, for about the same price, has twice the power at 2 Gbyte RAM and a 160-Gbyte drive.
Recently, Sun was touting the fact that more than 150,000 people have joined the OpenSolaris community. This is a pretty big number, particularly since the first release of OpenSolaris, dubbed 2008.05 and developed under the code-name "Project Indiana," only started shipping in May. That number doesn't tell the whole story.
Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?
So Amarok fits just fine, and does so on many platforms that are more exotically different from the KDE desktop than GNOME is. So why does this attitude persist?
