Linux conquers users via netbooks

Open source software currently has the opportunity to dominate the market, especially in the low-cost laptop segment such as MSI Windows, Eee PC, Dell Mini 9 ...

Open source software now has the opportunity to dominate the market, especially in the low-cost laptop segment such as MSI Windows, Eee PC, Dell Mini 9 . when the world tends to cut spending. for information technology.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 5th National Conference on free and open source software (organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Training and Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on December 5 In Hanoi, Mr. Tran Quoc Thang, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, said after 4 years of implementation, Vietnam's free software movement has achieved many encouraging results. Information system of the Party from the central to local level with about 12,000 / 20,000 machines has used OpenOffice, Firefox browser and Unikey percussion. 1,000 / 3,000 servers running the Linux operating system and most of the system's internal websites are developed on an open source platform.

According to Deputy Chief of IT Office, Ministry of Science and Technology Nguyen Trung Quynh, 50% of the world's top 500 enterprises have used open source software, typically Amazon.com, eBay . In addition , many leading computer firms have preinstalled open source applications on laptops like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus .

Some typical netbooks are installed with Linux operating systems

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The new netbook version of Sylvania works on Ubuntu Remix.

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The MSI Wind system competes with the Asus Eee PC.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 supports both XP and Ubuntu.

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Asus Eee PC 901 uses 4 GB or 16 GB SSD.

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Gigabyte is about to release the M528 with Linux operating system.

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The Acer Aspire One works on Linus Linux Lite.

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