I’m starting to find Intel’s Mobiln Linux for mobile devices a bit more interesting than I did a few months ago. But, to be perfectly honest, I still don’t see a reason to migrate to it from Ubuntu Netbook Remix. So, the Moblin aspect of the video posted in the Intel blog entry…
Video: Paul Cooper on the Moblin User Experience
…didn’t really interest me. But, this sentence did: According to Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI Research, Linux-based netbooks will be close to one-third of the 35 million netbooks shipped this year or 11 million Linux netbooks…
Hmm… 11/35 = 0.3142. So, 31% of all netbooks shipped in 2009 shipped with Linux installed? Nearly 1 out of every 3? Really? Where are all these Linux based netbooks? I bought one (an Acer Aspire One) in 2008 but haven’t seen another one since then. Are there millions and millions of Linux netbooks shipping in Europe and Asia? I certainly don’t see them in the U.S.
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