Eee PC’s Success Good News for Linux Fans

Asus has recently stated that its Eee PC series netbooks are the most successful products in the company’s history. This statement has been met with enthusiasm from Linux fans who hope the exposure Linux gets from being offered as an operating system on Eee PCs will make the public take notice of the open source OS.

While the success of the Eee PC has made Asus almost a household name, this has not always been the case. Before the Eee PC, Asus was well known to computer enthusiasts for their motherboards, graphics cards, and other computer hardware. Although Asus sold their own line of laptops, the general public took notice of the company as a computer manufacturer only after the introduction of the Eee PC.

Due to the Eee PC’s relatively weak hardware, which is one of the reasons the cost is kept so low, Asus decided that besides offering Windows XP, it would also allow customers to purchase Eee PCs with Linux as the operating system. Linux is not as resource intensive as Windows and offers better performance in less powerful systems.

The Linux-equipped Eee PCs have so far been very successful and have introduced a large number of computer users to the Linux OS. Fans of the operating system now hope that this success will cause Asus to use Linux on more of its future products and spread its popularity even further.