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Linux-Netbook.com is dedicated to small laptops running Linux based operating systems like Android, Chrome OS, Joli OS, Linux Mint, MeeGo, and Ubuntu. We encourage and support using free and open source software.
As announced last week version 1.0 of Jolicloud is currently being rolled out to the users of the netbook operating system. Probably the most obvious change compared to the pre-final release is the new HTML5 based launcher.
About 8 months have passed since Google announced their Web centric Chrome operating system. An official release from Google is expected by the end of 2010, but developers are free to create operating system builds based on the open source Chromium codebase.
This short video demoes touch support in Jolicloud 1.0 on the Samsung NB30 netbook. You get a sense of how to navigate and start applications as well as reordering them within the application panel. I guess we'll learn more about Jolicloud's touch capabilities on the Jolicloud blog soon.
Marco Martin posted a little how to on improving KDE Plasma Netbook performance and created this video to demonstrate the result of the configuration change he made on his Asus Eee PC 1005ha.
Looking at the devices showcased at this year's COMPUTEX in Taipei it doesn't look like 2010 is the year for Linux on netbooks but rather the year of Android based tablets. Seems like every vendor feels the need to compete with Apple's iPad.
