TuxRunner

This company rocks!  That’s all there is to it.  I can’t believe the netbook they’re selling right now.  It’s everything you could want on a small, low-cost computer….including a factory-installed copy of Linux.  It seems like most manufacturers are now pushing their netbooks with copies of Windows XP (bleh!!!), but companies like ZaReason and System76 aim to please the Linux community with cool hardware sporting the latest editions of one of the most popular Linux distros available..Ubuntu.

I’ve bought computers from ZaReason before.  They offered one of the earliest netbooks on the market back in late 2007, and since I couldn’t get my hands on an Asus Eee PC (supplies were VERY limited for the 8g model) I quickly put an order in for an Everex Cloudbook.  ZaReason was one of the only retailers other than Walmart to sell the Cloudbook early on.  It ran gOS 2.0, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.  While the hardware was pretty good, the operating system left a lot to be desired.  It wasn’t optimized or properly configured for the Cloudbook.  Pair that with poor support from Everex and newer netbooks that came out sporting Intel’s new Atom processor…the Cloudbook was doomed from the start. (continue reading…)