There seems to be a rumor going around that Microsoft has killed the Linux Netbook Market. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

This summer HP and Intel among others will start selling better netbooks with Linux on them. They will have much better interfaces and will have more ram and bigger hard drives than the XP models. HP will introduce the HP Mini 110, that runs Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with HP’s easy to use Mi (Mobile internet) desktop interface and Intel has announced the beta of Moblin 2.

The HP Mini:

Read the complete article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols over at ComputerWorld.