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The ASUS Eee PC X101 is a netbook with a 10.1" screen, powered by a 1.33GHz Intel Atom N435 processor. The X101 was showcased at Computex 2011 a few months ago running MeeGo and is now available with this Linux based mobile operating system pre-installed.
Before pulling out of the netbook market in the end of 2011, Dell was one of the few big computer manufacturers that offered netbooks with a pre-installed version of Linux, Ubuntu Netbook Remix to be precise.
This netbook by Sunlike, recently showcased at China Sourcing Fair, is powered by a 1.2GHz Boxchip A10 CPU, comes with 1GB RAM and runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The included 2100mAh battery is said to offer about 5 hours battery life.
There are lots of Linux distributions out there, the LWN Distributions list has 636 entries at the time of writing, an overwhelming number if you are new to Linux and don't know where to start.
To make the process of choice less painful for potential new Linux users, this article contains tips and points to resources to help finding the right Linux distribution.
The 1st generation of Samsung Chromebooks was released about a year ago, so it's high time for an updated model with improved specs, software and boot time, like the one demoed in this short video recorded at IDF Beijing.
In the last post we have seen Android running on the Wabook EPC1029, a netbook powered by an ARM based Rockchip CPU. But thanks to the efforts of the people behind the Android-x86 project the popular operating systems also runs on the x86 platform, see the Eee PC 1000HE Honeycomb demo for another example.
