What exactly was it that made netbooks so great, and where did they go? An Asus EEE PC shown here running Linux. You could run anything on them! Because they were real, full-fat computers.

Most netbooks ran Windows 7, which was lighter than the bloated Vista, but some ran Linux distros designed specifically for online use (ChromeOS anyone?) or even Windows XP. One of, if not the ...

so he grabbed one of the only netbooks that it was ever installed on, a Samsung N210. The machine has both Windows 7 and a custom Linux distribution installed on it, and with Hyperspace it’s ...

Why someone would pick this up instead of a netbook or Internet tablet, we have no clue… oh yeah, it only costs $175 and is based off Linux. Even then, is it really worth it?

In a recent blog post, Brandon LeBlanc, a communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, noted that both Canonical and MSI Wind have publicly stated that the Linux netbook ...