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[News] Broadband Deal, OpenOffice.org Make GNU/Linux Attractive on Sub-notebooks

  • Subject: [News] Broadband Deal, OpenOffice.org Make GNU/Linux Attractive on Sub-notebooks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:14:26 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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WiMAX deal "clears" Linux for takeoff

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| Clearwire Corp. announced that it has completed a $14.5 billion transaction 
| with Sprint Nextel to combine their Mobile WiMAX broadband services. The 
| merger of the two largest WiMAX services may accelerate deployments crucial 
| to the success of Linux MIDs, netbooks, and other devices.   
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4759851685.html

10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free

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| OpenOffice Whether your netbook is Linux- or Windows-based, one of the best 
| free downloads you can get is this suite of open-source productivity 
| applications. OpenOffice includes lightweight but robust applications that 
| compete with the expensive Microsoft Office alternatives: Writer (word 
| processing), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations), Base (database), 
| Draw (diagram creator) and Math (editor for math formulas).     
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http://gigaom.com/2008/12/02/10-ways-to-trick-out-your-netbook/


Recent:

Linux Carried Along on Netbooks Wave

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| Morvay revealed to Linux Magazine Online that there were no specific figures
| for Linux netbook sales, but that it lay somewhere in the 40th percentile.
| Even though this figure seems a little high, it is known that many of the
| world's netbooks have Linux on board since their first inception 18 months
| ago.
|
| For example, notebooks with Linux make up about 5.5% of the notebook market
| in Germany...
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/linux_carried_along_on_netbooks_wave
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