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Netbooks Poised to Be the New OS Battleground?
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| In 2009, it won’t be the “year of the desktop” for any operating system–
| instead, the coveted trophy seems to be “year of the netbook.”
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| Linux, thus far, has been a serious contender in the mobile Internet device
| (MID) category–small- to mid-size devices with more oomph than a smartphone
| but less power than an notebook or laptop. Typically these devices, which
| Intel has coined netbooks, share the common feature of being pre-installed
| with a basic toolset to surf the net and get some work done: browser, media
| viewers, word processors, spreadsheets, e-mail client. They also usually have
| solid-state on-board sotrage capacity, like super-agile internal Flash
| drives.
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http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/linuxwins/2009/01/19/netbooks-poised-to-be-the-new-os-battleground/
Looking for Linux, but sold out
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| I had an interesting time scouring the Internet for the right netbook for my
| wife, who’s got a birthday coming up, is due for a new computer and is
| anxious to use Linux more regularly. While there was the usual difficulty in
| finding the right specs and color, the biggest hangup was trying to find an
| Acer Aspire One netbook with Linux on it. It’s not that they aren’t made by
| the manufacturer, it’s that all the Linux netbooks seem to be getting gobbled
| up. What was widely available in all of the color, memory, hard-drive and
| other forms was Windows XP. There were loads and loads of Windows XP
| netbooks, and even though I’ve had experience paying the ‘Microsoft tax’ and
| just throwing on the Linux distribution of my choice, my wife wasn’t on board
| for that. I guess all of my struggling to get sound and WiFi working on my
| four-year old laptop gave her some reservations. Besides, she wanted a new
| Linux netbook, and I’m all for buying the Linux pre-installs so manufacturers
| see and feel the demand and keep making them.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/01/20/looking-for-linux-but-sold-out/
Recent:
is there a long-term future for the netbook?
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| The retail impact of Linux in the netbook market has been huge, with many
| retailers reporting that Linux based netbooks were taking up 40% or more of
| their notebook class shipments.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-there-long-term-future-for-netbook.html
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.
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| 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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