Nεα έκδοση του ubuntu για Ultra-portable Laptop

[chek2fire]

Σήμερα ανακοινώθηκε από τον mark shuttleworth μια νέα έκδοση του ubuntu για την νέα κατηγορία laptop που καθιέρωσε η asus τα ultra-portable laptop. Δείτε εδώ την ανακοίνωση

 

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/151

 

Και μερικές pic από το σύστημα

 

 

 

Αυτό το σημείο έχει ενδιαφέρων για την φύση του λειτουγικού

 

The netbook remix is not part of the “official Ubuntu editions”, itʼs not like Kubuntu or Ubuntu or Ubuntu Server. Itʼs a separate remix published by the Canonical OEM team. It will probably get revved in October when Ubuntu 8.10 is released, but thatʼs up to the Canonical OEM team and their customers, and not the responsibility of the Ubuntu project team.

 

In working with manufacturers, the OEM team creates custom install images which are specific to hardware from those OEMʼs. They have the free software packages Iʼve described, and they may also include third-party software selected by OEMʼs which Canonical cannot redistribute, so we canʼt publish the custom installers that are produced under contract. Those images typically are hand-customised for a faster boot time, which means they will only work on the particular device for which they were intended, unlike standard Ubuntu which should auto-detect and configure itself for whatever hardware it is being booted on.

 

We specifically wanted to do this project as an Ubuntu Remix - based on standard Ubuntu 8.04 packages, with modified package selection and some additional code, but leaving the core platform packages unmodified. In terms of the trademark guidelines for an Ubuntu Remix companies cannot call their platform Ubuntu if they have modified packages (especially the kernel and desktop packages) but they can if they are just re-arranging standard Ubuntu packages. Canonical is in a privileged position as the Ubuntu trademark owner - we can certify a custom kernel if we believe it has been done in an appropriate way that wonʼt conflict with standard Ubuntu maintenance processes, and if we can keep the custom kernel up to date to the same standard as the normal Ubuntu kernel. So these are certified Ubuntu devices from Canonical, even though they are more customized than other people can within the Remix guidelines.

 

Weʼre also working with two companies that want more radical user interface innovation. Canonical is participating directly in the design and implementation of one of those UIʼs, and weʼre integrating someone elseʼs UI on an Ubuntu base for the second project. I havenʼt seen either of those UIʼs, for confidentiality reasons, but Iʼm told that the teams working on them think they have great ideas that will elevate, in different ways, the state of the art. All in all it will be exciting to see how the netbook era stimulates innovation in the Linux user experience, because there are a lot of companies wanting to build differentiated UIʼs on a standard Linux base. And directly or indirectly Canonical will help to bring that innovation to KDE and GNOME and hence to the wider Linux ecosystem.

 

 

Φυσικά τα πακέτα είναι διαθέσιμα σε όποιον θέλει να τα δοκιμάσει εδώ

 

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu hardy main

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Μπράβο κάτι είναι κι αυτό!!

[chek2fire]

Kαι η παρουσιάση της διανομής από το phoronix

 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_netbook_remix&num=1