Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer
ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla
I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, I may well have been wrong. And new evidence shows that Linux on netbooks is alive and well, no matter what pundits like me have said in the past.
Open source tries to save the world
SmartPlanet / Dana Blankenhorn
By announcing first as an open source company, People Power was able to secure, not only start-up capital, but firm alliances with UC Berkeley and Stanford University. That’s a lot of brainpower.
People Power plans to launch a project dubbed the Open Source Home Area Network (OSHAN), which can be embedded in any device, essentially acting as the commercial arm of a project to be housed at Stanford and Cal.
Google hopes to remake programming with Go
CNet / Stephen Shankland
So far, Google’s Go project consists of the programming language, compilers to convert what programmers write into software that computers can run, and a runtime package that endows Go programs with a number of built-in features. It’s most similar to C and C++, but, Pike said, it employs modern features and has enough versatility that it could even be used within Web browsers.
I can attest that Win7 is pretty sluggish on the two 2Gb RAM netbooks I loaded it on last week. They were clean installs, too. It’s a lot like Vista on a laptop: takes a long time to boot, long time for services to load, and long time to open things the first time around. Will load sidux on a partition of one of them later tonight just for comparison.