The developers of the KDE desktop environment for Linux are working on a netbook optimized KDE 4 Plasma user interface. Applications & widgets can be displayed on low resolution displays & the graphical effects don't use too much resources.

The first Alpha release of the Joilicloud OS is available. Jolicloud is an Internet operating system. It combines the 2 driving forces of the modern computing industry: the open source & the open web.

Eeebuntu Base Edition 3.0 has been released. Eeebuntu is a custom version of Ubuntu Linux that supports Netbooks like the Eee PC.

After the Moblin v2 alpha 2 release, which was released 2 months ago the Moblin steering committee released Beta 2 of Moblin. This tiny Linux edition is suitable for Netbooks & Nettops.