The green Ubuntu computer is coming to us

China's vast rural areas are becoming richer, where people need to surf the Internet. Do we need to sell Grandpa's PC computer to them? Even the old "preinstalled Linux computer" style "? The answer is no. We need to change our thinking.

Recently, the green "Ubuntu computer" launched by everex in California deserves our reference. The so-called "green" here has two meanings: one is that the interface has a green background, and the other is "energy-saving". "energy-saving" is the main basis of what it calls "Green Computer". Therefore, "Green Computers" can also be called "energy-saving computers ". Everex, based on Ubuntu 7.10, has carefully designed a "ubuntu computer" called "Green GPC "), the pre-installed operating system is a variant of Ubuntu 7.10, called the "gos" operating system. Green GPC has 6 USB 2.0 ports, an Ethernet port, clock speed of 1.5 GHz, processor is via C7-D, memory is 612 MB, 80 GB hard drive, DVD drive, serial port and parallel port, and so on. Each GPC desktop computer is priced at $198 (without a display) and is currently available. Each GPC laptop is priced at less than $300 and will be available early next year. The green GPC computer is similar to an Apple Computer, with icons standing behind the display. The icon content is almost all columns of Google search engine. The dominant idea of green GPC computers is to make full use of network (Computing) resources (such as Google search resources) based entirely on free software (reducing costs) and to minimize entry-level operations (use) threshold.

The main feature of the everex green Ubuntu computer is that it is usually used by common users, shielding the differences in the operating system, greatly reducing the computing cost and realizing the huge potential of free software. The significance of everex's "Green Computer" is that it fundamentally reduces the overall computing cost of society and gives full play to the huge potential of free software, which is conducive to the economic development of developing countries, this will allow the masses to completely break through the windows cage and bring the future to a bright future.

Tip: Domestic Linux vendors can work with related hardware manufacturers to make such low-price "Green Computers", as long as they change to their own Linux release version, see Stan beer's article "The Year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived" in November 4 ".