Will the market accept another netbook
with a non-Microsoft operating system?
That's the question some are asking in the wake of the release of the code behind Google's Chrome OS, which is known as the open-source Chromium OS.
Why? Because although the EeePC that launched the netbook movementoriginally featured a Linux OS, several OEMs have downplayed Linux on the netbook platform, and replaced it with a version of either Windows XP or Windows 7 Starter Edition.
