In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux operating system upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. The company ...

I'm thinking about buying my 5 year old son a netbook for Christmas. He really likes playing games on my Mac and iPad, so I think he would do well with his own computer. What I need is a netbook with ...

Jolicloud 1.0 is a new edition of Linux aimed at non-technical netbook users, described this way by its makers: “[It] is not a traditional OS. It was built for netbook users to leverage the Cloud and ...

Canonical on Thursday updated its Linux distribution for netbooks, simplifying the interface and adding new programs that the company says will make it easier for users to access and use Web content.

So I have been wanting for quite awhile now a small notebook/netbook to take with me and experiment with. In my work I do a lot of stuff with configuring routers for security and will soon be testing ...

Asus plans to start shipping the Eee PC X101 netbook in September. First introduced in May, the X101 will be one of the cheapest 10 inch netbooks ever to hit the market. The netbook has a 1.33 GHz ...

It wasn’t even three-years ago that Asus took the concept of a cheap, small notebook and turned it into a revolution: the Linux-powered netbook. Today, netbooks continue to sell well. Indeed, Linux ...

Mandriva was one of the first Linux distributions to attempt to build support for netbook hardware into the standard operating system. Instead of downloading and installing a custom version of ...

Intel has expanded the scope of Linux-based Moblin by porting the OS from netbooks to mobile devices and desktops, where it could compete with Microsoft’s Windows OS. The company introduced a beta ...