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Linux and the Chromebook Pixel

Posted by Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas on Mar 4, 2013 in Featured, Hardware, Software | 4 comments

Google recently released its first Google laptop. It took the world by surprise, while there was a leak a few days before the device was still far from confirmed and even further from expected. ChromeOS is used in many low-end laptops, Chromebooks have pretty much become the successors of netbooks. However, the Pixel is different: instead of being akin to netbooks it’s more like a high-end ultrabook, a new category of its...

Linux and the Go-To-Market strategy

Posted by Luis Augusto Fretes Cuevas on Jan 31, 2013 in Featured, Hardware, Software | 4 comments

Linux has yet to achieve a significant piece of the PC market, unlike what it has done in the mobile space. So the question is why doesn’t it happen in the PC industry? Some people argue that Linux is too hard, or that it doesn’t have all the apps people need or all the games or what have you, they will quickly point out that there’s no Photoshop, or Premiere, or Skyrim. But is that true? Is that the reason? That...