[ Thanks to Sam
Varghese for this link. ]
“GNU/Linux was shipped on 24 percent of netbooks
globally in 2009, a senior analyst from the research firm ABI
Research says.“Jeff Orr told iTWire: “The tally at the end of 2009 had global
netbook shipments consisting of around 24 percent for all types of
Linux compared to 76 percent for all versions of Windows. “Total
netbook shipments for 2009 topped 36 million units to all regions
of the world.””
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