Forget Moblin! Ubuntu Netbook Remix rocks on the Classmate
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- Forget Moblin! Ubuntu Netbook Remix rocks on the Classmate
- Android developers get their prah moment
- Dell Sticks to Ubuntu 8.04 for Stability Costs
- A+ for Dell’s new Ubuntu Linux netbook
- Linux vendors trumpet cost savings
Forget Moblin! Ubuntu Netbook Remix rocks on the Classmate
ZDNet
I’ve already discussed my first impressions of the S running on a Convertible Classmate PC but the most important take home messages were:It’s fastIt makes great use of the small screen of a netbookA few inquiries on Twitter an email to the Moblin mailing list and some questions to Intel left me with some homework to get the touch interface and the wireless working but I was willing to do some tweaking to take advantage of the optimizations in Moblin. Then Intel sent me their Classmate PC image of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (NBR) and it took me very little time to abandon the Moblin ship. Why would I bother tweaking fiddling with drivers and otherwise goofing around with Moblin when Intel’s NBR image:Is fastMade great use of the small screen of the Classmate (sounding familiar yet?)Worked with the touch screen wireless and all hardware out of the boxCame with software for taking notes with the stylus handwriting recognition and the same palm rejection that makes it so easy to write on the Windows version of the tabletCame with Ubuntu’s familiarity and extensive software libraryIs easily switchable back to a standard Gnome desktop interfaceThe Intel image had a few key pieces of software buried; I launched Synaptic from the command line so that I could enable non-Classmate repositories. For the average classroom deployment this is actually a good thing but for administrators who want to for example install Wine it meant a bit of digging. The e-book reader software was in the ffice area and so on. However a bit of exploring sorted everything out quickly.
Android developers get their prah moment
CNET News
I use Ubuntu as my primary S & I think it would be awesome to be able to use some of the cool Android apps on it. Reply to this comment.
Dell Sticks to Ubuntu 8.04 for Stability Costs
S News
04 for Stability Costsposted by Thom Holwerdaon Wed 20th May 2009 20:59 UTC. 04 instead of newer versions of the popular Linux distribution such as 8.
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A+ for Dell’s new Ubuntu Linux netbook
Computerworld
After he chased me down he pried it out of my fingers. I didn’t want to give it up. This is one nice Ubuntu Linux-powered netbook. The Dell unit I looked at came with an Intel Atom N270 CPU running at 1. This one had 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM an 80GB 5400rpm hard drive and integrated Mobile Intel 950 GMA graphics chip set. It also had a 6-cell battery.
Linux vendors trumpet cost savings
CNET News
Canonical’s business model is constructed very differently than either. Canonical has yet to really show if any of their services are a good enough value for money to gain a critical mass of customers. Canonical doesn’t talk about sales figures at all and focuses entirely on communicating Ubuntu deployment number estimates. Don’t insinuate performance of a privately held company when its not there by associating them with successful public companies like Novell and Red Hat. We know what we know about Novell and Red Hat because therre is public information to review about their business. That does not exist for Canonical nor does Canonical make any effort whatsoever to release financial information of any sort.
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