Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’
Friday, July 18th, 2008
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XPS M1330 (Ubuntu)
Dell has rolled out systems with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Choices are limited to either the Inspiron 1525 15,4″ laptop, Inspiron 530 desktop or XPS M1330 12.1″ laptop. The systems are available in “in the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom and many Latin American countries (like Mexico and Colombia).”
Dell is set to add the XPS M1530n and Studio 15n to it’s Ubuntu line-up in early August.
Direct2Dell [TG Daily via Engadget]
Tags: 8.04, dell, hardy, heron, ubuntu
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Ars Technica has good coverage of the newly released Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex alpha 1. As this is an early alpha, the feature set is likely to change significantly before we see the final release, or even a beta. Among the most prominent new features (at the moment) you will find a wholly new theme (called “NewHuman”) and support for USB images and installation media.
IF you like, you can download and try out the alpha yourself, but be warned that this is an ALPHA, so don’t use it on a production machine.
Ars Technica
Tags: 8.10, intrepid ibex, ubuntu
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The first public release of Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 is now available for download. Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 is based on Ubuntu Desktop Edition 8.04 and is being built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community (sponsored by Canonical) in cooperation with Intel’s Moblin.org community.
The new release is designed to take advantage of Intel’s Atom CPU and has applications which have been modified in order to make them touch screen friendly.
Canonical [via Computer World]
Tags: 8.04, atom, canonical, intel, mid, moblin, ubuntu, umpc
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth has provided more information about Ubuntu Netbook Remix in his blog.
The aim was to do something very simple that could be tested easily, work with touch devices and made shippable very quickly. It also needed to be efficient on lower-power devices, and work well with Intel hardware, which seems to be the preferred platform for this generation of devices and allows us to slip a few nice effects in that would be hard without the right hardware support.
The new launcher is free software – so far, everything Canonical has funded, written and published for general public use on Ubuntu has been under the GPL. Currently we use GPLv3. You can grab the relevant packages from a public PPA, just add the following entry to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main
The PPA contains a number of packages for the launcher, some GNOME panel applets, window manager tweaks and themes. These bits and pieces are small but improve the experience of Ubuntu run with the netbook launcher on screens with lower vertical resolution. There’s also some code in there specific to the Intel netbook hardware platforms, don’t install ume-config-netbook unless you are on the right hardware
Mark Shuttleworth [via Slashdot]
Tags: netbook remix, ubuntu
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Canonical recently unveiled its version of Ubuntu for sub-notebooks, Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR). Laptop magazine has an interesting interview with Gerry Carr, marketing manager at Canonical, on the new Atom-powered OS.
I would say that the highlights are
- a boot time of 5-10 seconds
- UNR will only be available pre-installed
- UNR will not be available as a ready ISO for end users, rather it is meant for OEMs
- OEMs can customize the UI, if they wish.
Read the full article for more.
Laptop [via Slashdot]
Tags: netbook remix, ubuntu, unr
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Ars Technica has a hands on review of Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Overall they seem to be pretty impressed with it. Now we just have to wait for some actual hardware that comes with it, expected later this year.
Ars Technica
Tags: netbook remix, ubuntu
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Canonical has unveiled it’s version of Ubuntu for UMPCs and sub-notebooks. It is a “reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable internet-centric devices.” It is meant to “get [users] online more quickly and [give them] faster access to their favorite applications.” It “leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor.”
Ubuntu Netbook Remix is set to make its first appearance on devices later this year.
See the full press release and a gallery of screenshots after the break.
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Tags: canonical, netbook, netbook remix, ubuntu
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Tired of non-free software in Ubuntu? Well here comes gNewSense 2.0 (pronounced guh-NEW-sense) to the rescue. gNewSense is a FSF approved distribution that is guaranteed not to contain any proprietary software, all safely open sourced…
Why a new distro? Well, to quote from the FAQ:
Aren’t Ubuntu/Debian already free?
Neither Debian nor Ubuntu are fully free. Ubuntu installs non-free software by default. Debian provides non-free software through its repositories and includes non-free kernel drivers.
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Tags: debian, fsf, gNewSense, ubuntu
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