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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desktop Linux can often be a great choice for revitalizing old hardware, but some hardware is still too old. Not even Debian with a lightweight desktop environment could make my 2009 netbook a usable ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The early days of the netbook were happy ones for Linux advocates, who saw the new platform as the ...

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A new Linux netbook based on Moblin will be introduced this week, and it may represent a new way that the Linux community is approaching the mass market. Leaders at the first Linuxcon Conference in ...

Customizable software and hardware? Sounds good to me.