Welcome to the new trend of flash memory software

In July 9, boxed ubuntu was launched for sale in Best Buy and Amazon, pushing people's understanding to a deeper level and achieving a new leap? In October July 11, linuxloop published an editorial article requesting canonical to directly organize production and sales of ubuntu PC, just like apple. It is really important that people finally realize this.

Now, people are clearly aware that it is only limited to the ease of installation of the operating system, but it is always a perfect move to pre-install the operating system. Because, in fact, people generally do not want to install the operating system on their own, even if such an operating system is easy to install. For more than a decade, why is the market share of Linux always hovering around 1 ~ 2%? The root cause of this situation is Microsoft's pre-installed commercial software strategy, which seems to be locked.

As you know, in the recent period, Asus's so-called "Easy PC" computers have been selling very popular. The so-called "eee Project" in the Ubuntu community has a better idea. I want to streamline Ubuntu and put it on an SD card (secure digital memory card), and sell it together with my PC, with this SD card, you can switch between Windows and Linux. This step is more advanced than self-starting USB flash drives. Both of them are compressing application software into flash memory.

Since June this year, with the rise of small computers around the world, the self-starting USB flash drives and Ubuntu SD memory cards of mandriva in France have all shown one point: installing system software into flash memory is no longer a dream. This completely frees users from having to install an operating system on their own, paving the way for the popularization of Linux in a large scale.

The so-called "Flash software" refers to the software stored in the flash memory, which is no different from common software. The problem is how to put the system software into the self-starting USB flash drive and the SD memory card (with self-starting), which is a little difficult. However, this does not matter to the user. The manufacturer collects all the troubles of software installation and allows the software and hardware to be seamlessly configured and handed over to users for convenient use.

Today, the new wave of Flash software is moving towards us on a global scale, and we have no way back. PC Computer, pre-installed with a set of operating systems, users can unload, change to another operating system, and Flash Memory pre-installed with software, the user is not easy to uninstall and replace. SD memory card (capacity 1 ~ 4 GB), the cost is low, and it will be lower and lower. Handheld computers generally have SD card interface slots. It is difficult to imagine what a handheld computer is like when it is started through the SD card. Let us stride into the new trend of Flash software through the fog ahead.

(Note: the price of boxed SuSE Linux 10 is $74/box; boxed mandriva is $55/box; boxed Xandros is $87/box; boxed ubuntu8.04 is only $20/box, it also includes a fine instruction manual and 60-day free technical support .)