{"id":606052,"date":"2009-11-20T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/mobilecontenttoday\/netbooks\/abi_research_says_31_of_netbooks_shipped_in_2009_run_linux_really_143781.asp?c=rss"},"modified":"2009-11-20T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:05:00","slug":"abi-research-says-31-of-netbooks-shipped-in-2009-run-linux-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/606052","title":{"rendered":"ABI Research Says 31% of Netbooks Shipped in 2009 Run Linux. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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...<\/p>\n\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/blogs\/2009\/11\/19\/video-paul-cooper-on-the-moblin-user-experience\/\">Video: Paul Cooper on the Moblin User Experience<\/A><\/p>\n\n<p>...didn't really interest me. But, this sentence did: <em>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...<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n <p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to find Intel&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8230; Video: Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xF2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}