Netbooks Head for the $200 Range: Good News for Open Source

Posted by sakgarg on Jan 15, 2009 4:40 PM EDT
OStatic; By Sam Dean
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At this year's CES show, there was no shortage of netbooks, which have become a surprisingly strong challenge to the whole traditional notebook market. I remain surprised that more people in the open source community don't herald this trend as extremely positive for Linux, because Linux is making its way onto millions of netbooks and pre-loaded open source applications arrive with them.

[Yes they can come pre-loaded with Linux. But I know how many were actually running Linux at CES, one.- Scott]

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