Canonical Talks Netbook Remix Details

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."

Re:Not available?

[lupis42]

Which, to my mind, is kind of annoying. I would dearly like to see ISOs for the MSI Wind that I plan on buying, or the eeePC that my wife might wind up getting.

Re:Not available?

[Fry-kun]

Makes perfect sense to me.
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.

Re:Not available?

[LotsOfPhil]

I wonder how long it will take for a CentUbuntu to pop up and make ISOs for those who don't want to install from .debs.

Re:Not available?

[manekineko2]

How do you replicate a 5-10 second start time? I have an eeePC and was thinking about switching from its default Xandros, but the 5-10 second Xandros boot time that is replicated by Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a key feature.