Little Laptops With Linux Have Compatibility Issues

Posted by caitlyn on May 29, 2009 10:03 AM EDT
The Wall Street Journal; By Nick Wingfield 		Mail this story
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When the cheap laptops known as netbooks first came out over a year ago, computer makers were able to offer them at low prices in part by shipping them with the free Linux open-source operating system, rather than Microsoft's Windows. Since then, Windows netbooks have taken over most of the market after Microsoft began pushing Windows XP aggressively to netbook makers and consumers realized Linux netbooks didn't work well with some popular applications and devices.

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