Most netbooks use the Windows OS. Many have transitioned to Windows 7 Starter Edition with the latest crop of netbooks that is pushing out Windows XP. However, netbooks originally ran Linux, and now there might be a reason to go back to it. Netbooks have not gained much power. Make that any power in the last [...]
Continue reading...18. November 2009 | by Robert Nelson
Ubuntu is going to be doing a little rebranding when it comes to the netbook version of their operating system. The OS which is currently called Ubuntu Netbook Remix will see the name change when version 10.04 Lucid Lynx is released and that new name will be Ubuntu Netbook Edition. All in all, its really just [...]
Continue reading...29. October 2009 | by Robert Nelson
In the past my Linux distro of choice has always been Ubuntu, and although that has recently switched over to Jolicloud I am still holding a little flame towards Ubuntu. With that, today is a good day for all Ubuntu fans alike because version 9.10 (also known as Karmic Koala) has been released. I will say [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2009 | by Robert Nelson
Recently a few more tweaks were made to the upcoming release of Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which will be version 9.10 otherwise known as Karmic Koala. Anyway, if you remember back, we saw a few tweaks back in August and now this latest round seems to have gone back to a more familiar Ubuntu style color. Other [...]
Continue reading...For years, Dell was solidly in the Microsoft camp. Somewhere along the way, they realized that there was at least a limited market for a preloaded version of Linux computers. They also may have had a regret or two about not exactly being in the center of the smartphone revolution. What’s Dell’s next move? It looks [...]
Continue reading...14. August 2009 | by Robert Nelson
The Netbook Remix version of Ubuntu was introduced back in late-April and since then I have been happily running it on my Eee PC 1000H. With that, I was happy to read that some improvements and tweaks to the user interface as well as overall performance will be coming in the next version. For those [...]
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10. May 2010 | by Jonas
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