Though netbooks have waned a bit in favor of tablet devices, there’s still a lot of demand for netbooks and netbook-friendly Linux distros in certain circles. Whether you’re looking for a brand-new netbook or to keep an older device current, there’s plenty of options for the Linux crowd. Let’s take a look at the top five netbook Linux distros.
A lot has happened in the last year for netbook distributions, and there have been quite a few changes in our selection for 2011 compared to the 2010 line-up of best Linux netbooks.
What happened? Well, a couple of releases that weren’t quite ready for release yet finally hit the shelves. On top of that, a few releases sort of disappeared. The gOS release went offline and is now considered discontinued. Puppy Linux is still going strong, but with the current crop of netbook releases, it didn’t look quite as attractive this year as one of the suggestions.
In this article, Ubuntu, MeeGo, Chrome OS, Fedora 15 and OpenSUSE are compared with a summary by Joe Brockmeier. And no, you can’t download Chrome OS but you can get a Chrome OS lookalike called Hexxeh Flow.
I personally recommend you try out the Ping-EEE OS, a derivative of the Pingguy OS, made especially for netbooks.
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