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Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
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Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 14, 2008 21:10 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
Ah, sorry to say this, but they seriously need to take another look at their name if they're marketing to an English-speaking audience... especially if they're targeting non-techies. ew.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 14, 2008 22:31 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]
Agreed, no linux distro should have a name containing the word "pus" - are they trying to make a joke on the "open sores" concept? Sorry guys, back to the drawing board.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 14, 2008 23:20 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's all limp as well.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 15, 2008 4:34 UTC (Fri) by a_hippie (subscriber, #34) [Link]
Now just look here folks, some of us *do* like the word pus or puss in a title! Kiddapuss is helping me read the news, and Smokiepuss is busy watching TV :) regards
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 15, 2008 21:27 UTC (Fri) by csigler (subscriber, #1224) [Link]
Aha! I have their new slogan: "Linpus: It's the 'cat's meow!'" ;^)
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 15, 2008 7:17 UTC (Fri) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]
How do you pronounce "Linpus"? Because everytime I try to say it I can't stop laughing :)
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 15, 2008 15:03 UTC (Fri) by ikm (subscriber, #493) [Link]
They should rename to Linups.
Linpus is one of few preinstalled distros
Posted Feb 15, 2008 5:27 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
Acer has been for some time selling a low-end workstation that has Linpus pre-installed, at least in some markets (here in Finland one can get it for example at http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=0235). I have no idea if it is the version described in the article. The linked page claims "it has no windowing system (X)", which sounds strange. If true, it would mean Acer put Linpus on it just as a "placeholder", expecting all users to replace it by something else.
Linpus is one of few preinstalled distros
Posted Feb 15, 2008 17:35 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
The article says that the Normal mode is KDE, and even the Easy mode can run Firefox, so it must have a windowing system. Either it's an improved version, or somebody mistranslated the statement that it has no Windows.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 16, 2008 3:36 UTC (Sat) by minghua (subscriber, #39620) [Link]
This article looks very suspicious to me. It just doesn't make much sense that a company "long been known in Taiwan for its Linux distributions" doesn't have a Chinese version for its website.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 16, 2008 17:44 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
http://tinyurl.com/227bw5 They do have a better showing on DistroWatch, coming in at #128. Remember "Linux One"? ;-)
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 16, 2008 20:27 UTC (Sat) by ris (editor, #5) [Link]
I find all this Linpus bashing to be very distasteful. Linpus has been around and well-known in Taiwan for many years. The distribution has been in the LWN list for several years, but as a Taiwan based embedded distribution, originally based on uClinux. The last time I was link checking around there the website was in Chinese. It looks like over the past few months they started putting up English pages over the old Chinese site. If you dig deeper you'll find information that still hasn't been translated. Now the company is changing focus and trying to branch out to new markets. Unlike LinuxOne, this is a real company with real Linux experience.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 16, 2008 20:48 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Well, google didn't know about them until a few months ago. http://tinyurl.com/3e3bn5 How can it have been "long known in Taiwan for its Linux distributions" without Google knowing about it? Riddle me that. I've been watching Linux *very* closely since 1996. And I've certainly never heard of them. Steven duped you on this one.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 17, 2008 1:31 UTC (Sun) by ris (editor, #5) [Link]
> Well, google didn't know about them until a few months ago. Maybe you need to google in Chinese. Up until a few months ago there was no English on their website. They have been on the LWN distribution list for years, so I've known about them for years. Since I don't read Chinese I've never known very much about them. I'm not sure when they made the LWN list, but I found an old version from 2002 and Linpus was on it then.
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 17, 2008 17:43 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Now that I have slept on it... I *do* seem to remember, vaguely, that name from some time back. And if I remember them (if a bit belatedly), and you remember them... does it not seem a bit odd to you that Google doesn't "remember" them until July of last year? I'll bet if we looked hard enough, the Microsoft connection would become apparent. ;-)
Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)
Posted Feb 19, 2008 10:39 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]
does it not seem a bit odd to you that Google doesn't "remember" them until July of last year?Just proves that Google is not omniscient. Referring my earlier comment about Acer shipping some PCs with Linpus: I recall seeing "verkkokauppa.com" having had them in their catalogue for some time, at least for about 2 years. (I happened to notice them at the time because I had been prospecting for a new Microsoft-tax-free home PC).
There are humans too....
Posted Feb 17, 2008 22:22 UTC (Sun) by deleteme (subscriber, #49633) [Link]
There are several well known brands that doesnt have enough people searching for them on the web. Just go out on the street of your city and you will find lots of very successful busniesses that are very active but have little Google coverage, and none on Google Trends. You can do a lot of good busniess just using human interaction....