where did all the Linux netbooks go?
So, I’ve been involved in a long discussion here and on IT Wire with just the most charming and polite adversary one could wish for, Mr. Telic.
Mr. Telic holds out the netbook market as the counter to my theory that Linux is doing pretty crappily in the traditional operating system ‘market’. He cites numbers mainly drawn from 2008 and 2009, when Acer and Asus executives were on record as saying they were shipping 20% and “30 percent to 40 percent” of systems, respectively, with Linux installed, and one analyst said that 32% of netbooks shipped in 2009 ran Linux, and predicted that the majority would run Linux by 2012.
On the face of it, hey, that’s a pretty strong argument. On my Canonical-hatin’ sidetrack I did note that neither Acer nor Asus shipped Ubuntu on their netbooks – Asus uses/used Xandros and Acer uses/used Linpus, a Fedora derivative – which makes Mr. Telic’s point rather weaker in support of the theory that Ubuntu’s doing all the work of promoting Linux for ordinary people.
I’m interested in with this post is the question of how Linux is doing.
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