The sparsely populated floor at Linuxworld was a disappointment, but netbooks made an impact at this year’s show, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience.

Filling an important mobile computing niche between smartphones and notebooks, netbooks are quickly gaining favor for their portability as well as their price tag, which is usually under $500. Early ...

Windows’ dominance extends to 96% of netbooks sold in the U.S. in February. Worldwide, three-quarters of the 15 million netbooks sold in 2008 came with Windows. But Linux, which now accounts for the ...

Over the past few days there’s been a raft of stories about how the Linux netbook market share is not as healthy as it used to be. Up until now it’s been believed that the emerging netbook market ...

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Over the past few years a number of custom Linux distributions for netbooks have popped up. And while some were designed from the ground up by large teams of developers with corporate backing, like ...

Most all readers will be well aware of the ASUS Eee Linux PC. Other vendors now seek to achieve similar success, the latest being Acer’s Linpus device. Yet, a common complaint is that traditional ...

Back in the day, Netbooks ran Linux and packed solid-state drives. But Windows XP and large hard disk drives have prevailed. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

Here’s more evidence that the Linux threat to Windows is over: A new study concludes that Linux is losing ground in the netbook market. When it comes to Linux on the desktop, the war is over — unless ...