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Linux On Netbooks: Doomed Already?
Published 11/10/2008 by thegline@optonline.net (Serdar Yegulalp) at InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs
So goes some of the punditry I've heard from various quarters. I mentioned the Guardian's "Linux is washed up" take on the issue, and now Ian Lamont at the Industry Standard put it this way : Windows 7 will make Linux downright irrelevant on netbooks.
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