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If you happen to already be a Linux enthusiast, then likely you have been following any and all developments around the growth of Google's Chromebook with great interest.
Unlike Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Google have succeeded, on a broad scale, in getting shelf space in the U.S. and Canadian retail 'brick and mortar' setting.
And, as witnessed over the past year, 2012, we have seen a series of OEMs making their first Chromebook SKUs. Samsung (now with several), Acer, Lenovo, and most recently Hewlett Packard all have entered the ring. It's a vote of 'confidence' for Chromebook in several respects: