I was reading Wired and there was an article on Netbooks. One interesting thing that the guy wrote was that he had only two icons on his XP Netbook - Firefox and the recycle bin. As he pointed out, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux operating system upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. The company ...

Canonical on Thursday released a Linux distribution optimized for netbooks with features to improve battery life and rapidly access programs. The Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Netbook Remix is designed to run ...

Canonical on Thursday updated its Linux distribution for netbooks, simplifying the interface and adding new programs that the company says will make it easier for users to access and use Web content.

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 ...

A Microsoft blogger says that the Windows operating system has achieved dominance in the netbook market. The statistics, however, are less definitive. Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu ...

Consumers already have a user experience in mind when using a device focused on personal computing tasks. That experience is largely Microsoft Windows-based. I’ve been reading the recent Linux and ...

A third of netbooks shipped in 2009 came with GNU/Linux rather than Windows preinstalled, according to analysis from ABI Research. The firm's figures strongly contradict Microsoft's oft-stated claim ...

In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. The company is researching ...