Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch) [LWN.net]

Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)

Posted Feb 16, 2008 20:48 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch) by ris
Parent article: Linpus offers a Linux for newbies and experts alike (Linux-Watch)

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.

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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....