netbooks

LinuxLinks: For users and developers who want to run an attractive Linux desktop on older hardware, netbooks, or mobile internet devices, neither KDE or GNOME may be a viable option, as they run too slowly on low spec machines (such as less than 256MB RAM and a 1 GHz processor).

This article seeks to identify the best lean desktops for Linux, for users that have old or even ancient hardware."

Nanotech - The Circuits Blog: "Intel is re-evaluating the Netbook market as possibly not The Next Big Thing.

This from the company that makes the Atom processor and accompanying silicon that go into most of the Netbooks sold today."

Netbooks are still all the rage these days, but according to Intel, this is going to change soon.

Dell is advertising Ubuntu Linux Netbooks in US newspapers at the bargain basement starting price of $299, according to The VAR Guy.

The move reinforces Dell's commitment to open source in the consumer and mobile business markets.

We know of notebooks and netbooks, but what about mobile audio computers? Let's take a look at that today, with the Indamixx laptop from Trinity Audio Group.

You may have forgotten that Lenovo hasn't released its entry into the netbook market yet and that's okay.

Last month we covered an article titled, "MSI: Wind Doing Well, Linux Version Not So Much" which revealed that Linux MSI Wind netbooks saw a return rate upto four times higher than the Windows equivalent.

Datamation: "Netbooks are a new category of laptop computer, defined mostly by their small size and cheap price. The category started only a year ago and has evolved drastically since.

I tried the first netbook, an Asus Eee PC with a 7-inch screen and didn't like it; the keyboard and screen were much too small.

But many disagreed with me, and the popularity of that first Eee PC led to dozens and dozens of imitators."

OStatic: "Shen says four million EeePC netbooks have been sold this year, with models offering pre-installed Windows versions rolling out in the later quarters.

He says ASUS has found the return rates for the Linux and Windows models are similar."

WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 24, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne.

Stories for today include the end of the road for SCO, (honest, finally, really) first tenuous hops from Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope, a brighter than bright future for ASUS, Google and Apple netbooks, and why you aren't safe online."