A netbook with Linux? Here are six options, Apr 01, 2009

Buying a netbook with Linux is not as easy as it initially promised to be. Here is a selection of mid-level netbooks that could be bought with Linux pre-installed. Most of the specs on the machines below are comparable - some may have slightly more hard drive space and others an extra 512MB memory - but none of them ship with built-in 3G which would make them simply too expensive.

Once again, the New South Wales State Government has left Linux out in the cold after being knee-deep in speculation the open source platform would make in-roads into its desktop environment.

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