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 ...

It's not Linux, or even Unix.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Recently, fellow Computerworld blogger, Preston Gralla wrote about a Lenovo analyst who felt that Windows 7 will dominate netbooks, and Linux will fade away. Of course, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ...

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HP has dropped Linux as an operating-system option for its latest netbooks in the UK market. An HP spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Thursday that it will not offer the Linux version of the new HP Mini ...