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2009-08-25 , 12:21
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Originally Posted by mrojas View Post
The Atom created the netbook market, not Linux. Linux was in because it was customizable enough to fit into netbook hardware. The same reason why Maemo devices exists, Linux can be made to work on any kind of device, something you can't do with Windows (XP barely fitted in the original netbooks).
Atom had nothing to do with it -- netbooks started with 900 MHz Celerons, and the MID-focused Menlow/Atom program shifted to emphasize netbooks only after they became an unexpected success. And IMO, the cost and size are what made the market, and one of those (cost) was a big driver for Linux as well, forcing MS to trim license prices to get XP on them.
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