A report from researcher Canalys said 13.5 million netbooks were sold globally in the first half of 2009.

The Skytone Alpha 860 which was announced in April this year is the first Netbook available with Google Android installed. Now a review of this new Netbook has been published.

Do your remember Moblin? This project will now be integrated into Fedora Mini - the lightweight Linux distro targetted at Netbooks/Nettops.

Easy Peasy 1.5 is released. This is a custom Linux distribution (Ubuntu based), optimized for netbooks. According to the developers they have taken their time to iron out bugs and put in new features to "again give the netbook community a great linux distribution."