Acer adopts Linux for laptops

Posted by andrey.golub at 21:55 | |

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1. 1. Acer is a bad name especially for linux, there were no reports how linux behaves on the model they sold, but according to its ~200 euro price it's an old bunch of hardware which was reverse engineered long time ago by linux community and should work. I doubt they will dare to install linux on their "ferrari" models. To do that they will have to change their business model and sacrifice the market.
   
   2. Acer did not offer "pre-installed" linux to anyone there, it was the retailer in Singapore who did it on "naked" PCs
   
   3. The original intention of Acer was to install a Chinese version of Fedora, not Ubuntu.
   
   These three facts above are unrelated to my personal experience with Acer which is just another story.
   
   

   Posted by Michael on Sunday, August 5th, 2007 at 09:00