The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop?

Posted by bob on Nov 2, 2018 10:36 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Jeff Siegel
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This is the story of the brief, shining history of the Asus Eee, the first netbook—a small, cheap and mostly well-made laptop that dominated the computer industry for two or three years about a decade go. It's not so much that the Eee was ahead of its time, which wasn't that difficult in an industry then dominated by pricey and bulky laptops that didn't always have a hard drive and by desktop design hadn't evolved much past the first IBM 8086 box.

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