Netbooks made an impact at this year's Linuxworld, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience.
Crowds flocked the booths of companies like Canonical and Good OS, which showed off special versions of Linux designed for netbooks, low-cost laptops designed to run basic applications for web surfing and email.
The Linux versions have been redesigned to work properly with netbooks, which are characterised by limited computing resources, lightness and small screen sizes.
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