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Canonical Talks Netbook Remix Details
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timothy
on Thursday June 05, @03:13PM
from the smart-niche dept.
from the smart-niche dept.
geekinchief points to a just-posted interview at Laptop Magazine "with Canonical's market manager, Gerry Carr, where he
talks about Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Some interesting details: Canonical does not plan to make the Netbook remix available for download or sale. It will only come pre-installed on new systems. It will boot in 5-10 seconds."
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Glyn Moody writes "In an interview with the Guardian today, Mark Shuttleworth talks about the upcoming Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a tailored version for ultraportables, produced in collaboration with Intel." The new version of Ubuntu is barely mentioned in this interview, but it's tantalizing -- SUSE looks nice on the HP Mininotes, but for people who are used to and enjoy Ubuntu, it's an option to look forward to.
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uh (Score:1, Funny)
5-10 seconds?! (Score:3, Funny)
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--Homer Simpson
Not available? (Score:5, Informative)
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Once installed, it is relatively easy to customise to your own tastes/needs. For example, I removed all the
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You don't need a company, a community is more than enough.
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I wonder if this will successfully force the sales numbers to reflect Ubuntu's popularity?
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They're required by GPL to provide the sources to anyone who purchases one of those notebooks. They're not required to post the ISOs, though.
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So easy to get rich... (Score:2)
1/ "Hello M. Manufacturer"
2/ +"5-10$/notebook for a fully fledged, hand tailored os"
3/ +"garanteed OS/drivers support for that particular system hardware for 5 years" (about same as Ubuntu LTS)
4/ +"instead of 90$ for microsoft and no garantees fr
not a big fan (Score:3, Interesting)
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This OS is optimized for specific hardware. It would probably not work very well on just any PC. Or at least that is what I got from TFA.
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No ISO because UMPC hardware is different (Score:2)
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We don't need no steenkeen prepositions!
And don't get me started about "Canonical Discusses Netbook Remix Details" or all those other ways to sa