http://gadgetmix.com Gadgetmix reviews netbooks, notebooks and tablets Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/ http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:17:22 +0000 Paul Merak http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=9312 dailyfinance) that it actually DOES train the Best Buy Employees the 'important' differences between Linux and Windows Computers. Few Best Buy employees leaked the training slides on the web which depict the Microsoft's Anti-Linux agenda "Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007". They even go one step ahead and simply said "Linux is not safer than Windows" Our take on the aforementioned claims by MSFT:1) Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007:Linux may not be having the exact apps, but it has alternatives that do the same stuff. All that for free. For Photoshop, one can get GIMP. For Office, Openoffice and many others. There is even an app for syncing music with your iPod!Click on read more to read the whole article]]> http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/no-wonder-linux-netbooks-are-not-selling-that-well-microsoft-teaches-best-buy-to-trash-linux/feed/ 1 http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/updated-eee-linux-os-for-eee-pcs-700-701-900-901-1000h-etc/ http://gadgetmix.com/netbook/updated-eee-linux-os-for-eee-pcs-700-701-900-901-1000h-etc/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:22:40 +0000 Paul Merak http://gadgetmix.com/index/?p=6596 XEPC.org have unveiled version 1.7 of the EEE PC OS that is compatible with EEE 700, 701, 701SD, 900, 900A, 900SD, 901, 904HD, 1000 and S101.The main features and improvements that you will find in this update are:

• Support for more languages
• More themes
• Inclusion of Firefox 3 and OpenOffice 2.4<==
• It uses kernal 2.6.26 that supports hyperthreading. Ofcourse, you need a netbook that has an Atom processor in it to use hyperthreading. This also means that this feature won’t work on the netbooks that use Celeron processor that includes 700-series

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