Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Sat 7th Mar 2009 18:08 UTC
Google It's not very surprising as we've all speculated a full-fledged Google OS for years, then Google's mobile OS hit the phone market, and now we've seen it (Android, of course) already installed and working dutifully on netbooks. It's not rock-solid, but Google's CEO has hinted that there'll be subsidized, Android-powered netbooks backed by Google or its partners arriving to the netbook scene soon.
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RE[4]: No thanks
by B. Janssen on Sun 8th Mar 2009 13:13 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: No thanks"
B. Janssen
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2006-10-11

I mostly only use the browser anyway, so I don't need full gnome as a glorified firefox launcher.


Then you don't need XFCE either. Just use a baremetal WM, e. g. twm, launch FF from .xinitrc (.xsession for Debian and spin-offs users) and a mini-cli, such as gmrun. More than you will ever need ;)

Anyway, Android netbooks, why not? Coupled with one of those nifty Freescale minibooks it could be cool.

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