OTA and Linux

[Evan Leibovitch]

James Knott wrote:

>My ThinkPad runs well, with all devices, including modem and WiFi
>supported.  Also, with the push for Linux in China, Taiwan and
>elsewhere, I expect a lot more computers will be supporting it.
>  
>
There are already a great many products supporting Linux; they're just 
not sold here.
How many of the motorola Linux-based smartphones are available in North 
America?
The Zaurus, which was a flop for Sharp in America, is still sold in Asia.

><http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/03/2003311446>
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>
This is very good news because it means that the low-cost PC, laptop and 
motherboard vendors (such as Asus and Gigabyte) *must* provide 
Linux-compatible products. There is a benefit to this beyond short-term 
product availabilty, in that any "trusted hardware" designed to keep 
Linux off of new hardware cannot be sold to these increasingly 
significant markets. This means that there will be a good supply of 
current hardware components that will be able to run Linux regardless of 
the kind of motherboard-enforced DRM that Microsoft and others would 
like to implement.

- Evan


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