The History of Netbooks

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A netbook is a somewhat old laptop paradigm that became very successful in the last year and encompasses a small sized body that’s light-weight and usually low-cost.

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    Posted by Willie Bedell  on  11/15  at  04:57 PM

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    2. Posted by gary  on  11/16  at  02:45 AM

  2. Because of the complete modularity of Linux, adding new software to Linux-based Netbooks isn’t really a problem.  Unlike Windows, which makes the graphical user interface (GUI) part of the operating system, on a Linux machine the GUI is just another program, so adapting Linux to a particular display really has no bearing on the underlying OS.  The only real considerations are whether the desired new software will fit on the storage medium, and the packaging format used by the installation utility.

    While costly Windows subnotebooks share some history with Netbooks, no discussion of the genre would be complete without a nod to Michael Robertson’s 2.9lb “Lindows Laptop” (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6662) which introduced such key concepts as “cloud” computing (the “Net” in “Netbook"), external storage, and (for the time) ultra-low price for a portable of similar weight and power.  The “Lindows” in the name was of course Linux, Robertson’s version designed to combine “the power of Linux with the ease of Windows.” Microsoft eventually paid Robertson a large settlement to change the name of the product, now known as Linspire.

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