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Linux Is Regaining Netbook Market Share Quickly
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| Despite this ABI Research published some
| new data last month and the results may
| surprise you. They place the 2009 market
| share for Linux on netbooks at 32% with 11
| million units preloaded with Linux shipping
| this year. In an interview with
| DesktopLinux.com, Jeffrey Orr of ABI makes
| clear that dial boot machines (i.e.: the
| Acer Aspire One AOD250-1613) and machines
| that are purchased with Windows but later
| have Linux loaded do not count in the 32%
| number. That number is pure Linux sales.
| This data confirms comments made first by
| Jay Pinkert and later by Todd Finch of Dell
| that one third of their netbooks sales are
| Linux machines and that there is no higher
| return rate for Linux systems than there is
| for ones sold with Windows preloaded.
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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/linux-regaining-netbook-market.html
Netbook Makeovers, Cloud Censorship, and a Lucky Backup
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| I shouldn't have to come clean on this, but
| I will. I'm not the world's biggest fan of
| Microsoft Windows (really?) but I recognize
| its position in business and on most of the
| world's desktop. But trust me. It doesn't
| belong on a netbook.
|
| So what does? Linux, of course. The kind of
| Linux that was designed for a netbook. In
| the hours that followed my decision to
| scrap Windows from yet another computer, I
| tried Easy Peasy (based on Ubuntu 8.04),
| Moblin, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 which
| is based on the current Sue Graftonesque
| release "K is for Karmic Koala" (there's a
| thread on my WFTL-LUG titled "Sue Grafton
| meets Linux" so I couldn't resist).
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http://ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Marcel-Gagne-Orbiting-Planet-buntu/Netbook-Makeovers-Cloud-Censorship-and-a-Lucky-Backup
Recent:
Uruguay government gives every student a laptop
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| The laptops in question go by the name of the
| XO, and are brightly coloured, very basic
| netbooks which run on a Linux operating system
| called âSugarâ.
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http://www.t3.com/news/uruguay-government-gives-every-student-a-laptop?=41487
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