EETimes.com - Chrome OS gets mixed reactions

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Rick Merritt

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EE Times

(07/08/2009 4:40 PM EDT)

Wanted: printer drivers and apps

Android has been getting plenty of attention from a broad set of netbook and embedded developers as one of the first Linux distributions with the backing of a major company able to attract broad support among software developers.

Netbooks are becoming a segment of their own with one market watcher projecting they could grow to become almost a quarter of the mobile PC market in 2013. However, they face plenty of software issues such as finding a common applications framework and full support for Web video.

Analyst Will Strauss, principal of Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.), was skeptical Google could solve longstanding issues that have plagued PC Linux such as a lack of applications and driver support for common peripherals.

"The big drawback to running Linux on a netbook is that ...

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