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As a follow. Novell has said they wont be trying to fite Suse onto Arm netbooks. Possibly as Silverpoop wouldnt run on them.. Tom te tom te tom On Friday 13 March 2009 09:21, Paul Sutton wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Looks like OLPC are asking for the impossible (or highly unlikely), they > > want Microsoft to port Windows 7 to ARM! > > > > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/402/1051402/olpc-urges-microsoft > >-windows-arm > > > > I can't help but thinking that if they didn't dump Linux for Windows > > then it wouldn't really be much of an issue. I bet the nearest they'll > > get is Microsoft offering them Windows Mobile. > > > > Rob > > The argument for windows is the huge catalogue of applications that are > available for it, (granted there are lots for Linux), but its key apps > people seem to want, e.g office, so to port Windows 7 to arm people > will then expect office ported and that will push up the cost, > > before long OLPC will end up as one laptop per class, due to the huge > cost of windows and related software licensing, not to mention anti > virus etc. > > Why not stick to Linux it works. > > Paul > > -- > Paul Sutton > www.zleap.net > Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf > http://www.odfalliance.org > Next Linux User Group meet : April 4th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html