[News] GNU/Linux Does Well on Sub-notebooks, Preinstalled ..

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Linux owns 32 percent of netbook market, says study

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| ABI Research is projecting that in 2009
| Linux will represent 32 percent of netbook
| sales, far higher than the seven percent
| figure claimed by Microsoft, says a report.
| ABI also estimates that Linux will overtake
| Windows on netbooks by 2013, largely due to
| sales in less-developed countries, says the
| story.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/ABI-netbook-study/

Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)

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| Ok, so much for slogging through a lot of
| the details. Overall, I like the Karmic
| Netbook Release better than I did the
| previous ones. I think it is visually
| better, clearer, easier to understand and
| use. Some time ago I set up an HP Mini 2140
| with UNR for a friend. I will be seeing her
| again soon, and I will show her the new UNR
| release and ask if she would like for me to
| upgrade it for her.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014371o-2000498448b,00.htm

HP Mini 5101

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| You have to be prepared to live with Windows
| XP Home, Windows 7 Starter or Linux and deal
| with the usual netbook constraints such as a
| 10.1-inch screen, no optical drive and an
| Intel Atom N280 processor.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014364o-2000667842b,00.htm


Recent:

Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst

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| Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or
| dying are incorrect, at least globally,
| according to an analyst firm.
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| Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks
| on track to ship this year will come with
| some variant of the free, open-source
| operating system, ABI Research said. The
| exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows,
| said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which
| works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks
| this year.
|
| That number contradicts third-party market
| figures, trumpeted by Microsoft, that showed
| Linux shipping on as few as 4% of U.S.
| netbooks.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/Linux_s_share_of_netboo...surging
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