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Linux Netbooks: A Tough Ticket?
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| Why don't PC makers sell more Linux netbooks? Maybe because they simply
| aren't making enough of them.
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| Jay Lyman is an analyst for The 451 Group who focuses on enterprise
| open-source software issues. He recently posted a blog entry describing the
| difficulty he had finding an Acer Aspire One netbook with a pre-installed
| copy of Linux. According to Lyman, the problem was that while loads of Aspire
| One models running Windows XP were in-stock and available, the models running
| Linux were in many cases simply sold out:
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| "The message for Acer and other manufacturers: up your ratio of Linux
| netbooks. While North America seems to be the main market for these machines,
| about 30% of which run Linux by most accounts, among my dwindling options for
| obtaining the right Linux netbook were in Canada and the UK. However, the
| shipping costs added onto my minimal netbook expense of ~$350. While there
| were a number of online outlets that were sold out of the Linpus version,
| most of these same places had hundreds, sometimes thousands of XP netbooks in
| stock."
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/linux_netbooks.html
New Screenshot of Jolicloud Netbook Operating System
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| Netvibes founder Tariq Krim sent me a new screenshot of Jolicloud, the
| Linux-based Netbook-optimized operating system he's building (we first
| covered Jolicloud last December).
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/22/AR2009012203485.html
http://tinyurl.com/bvbdyl
Recent:
Linux boosted by netbook demand
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| THE GROWING MARKET for netbooks is helping drive Linux adoption around the
| world according to a new report from star-gazers at Forrester.
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| The report, Netbooks are the third PC form factor, reckons Netbooks have
| driven adoption of Linux all over the place, except - naturally - in the USA.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/265/1050265/linux-boosted-by-netbook-demand
Netbook sales driving Linux adoption
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| "While Linux-based netbooks have not gained much consumer acceptance in the
| US, their success varies greatly by geographical market. In developing
| countries, Linux-based Eee PCs have fared better," said Forrester analyst J P
| Gownder.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2233381/netbooks-sales-driving-linux
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