Netbook sales driving Linux adoption

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com 07 Jan 2009 The burgeoning netbook market is helping to drive Linux adoption around the world, according to new figures from Forrester Research. The analyst firm's Netbooks are the Third PC Form Factor report suggests that netbooks have driven adoption of the open source operating system in ways that have not been achieved with either the PC or notebook markets. "While Linux-based netbooks have not gained much consumer acceptance in the US, their success varies greatly by geographical market. In developing countries, Linux-based Eee PCs have fared better," said Forrester analyst J P Gownder. "Even if a majority of netbooks run Windows, the minority that run Linux are the most successful non-Windows, non-Macintosh consumer PCs in the industry in terms of penetration." Over a third of... [read full story]                    

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