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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."
who talks what about the whatnow?
I just read the same headline in my spam folder!
That's not even enough time for me to get my pants off!
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
Open Source My Ass!
Just say :
:in 9x5 coverage, desktop 250$/y, server 750$/y)
1/ "Hello M. Manufacturer"
2/ +"5-10$/notebook for a fully fledged, hand tailored os"
3/ +"garanteed OS/drivers support for that particular system hardware for 5 years" (about same as Ubuntu LTS)
4/ +"instead of 90$ for microsoft and no garantees from them at all"
5/+"Of course, it's available now and already running on X millions of systems, it even already have self help forums by the thousands "
6/+"And we will cut you in on all support contracts you bring in (http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
and you're the happy salesman that is looking at 10 000 000 laptops/year minimum with a part of your salary on them, or, as they say :
7/Profit
And then you go see the next manufacturer 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
Ubuntu built its base on the ability to easily, cleanly displace the dominant OS. Now that they've got some traction they reverse directions in a market that provides next to no freedom for users? Color me unimpressed- if they really want software to be free, the first step is giving people the ability to choose between the codebases that already exist.
The thing that tripped me up is trying to read 'Canonical' as an adjective because that meant I tried to read 'Talks' as a plural noun, not a present tense verb..
You don't need a company, a community is more than enough.
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
for a machine that does not have an optical drive?
PXE boot and network install would seem to be the way forward.
The new class of UMPCs have specialized hardware that is much closer to the user space than the more general-purpose machines we use today. The XO-1, for example, has dedicated keys on the keyboard for context switching, mesh networking hardware that interacts with application to let the user to co-editing, and other innovations.
A lot of the infrastructure needed to drive this level of hardware interaction simply doesn't exist on general-purpose machines. There's no generic ISO for the XO-1, there's only the ISO that runs on the XO-1 hardware.
You can, of course, take the non-hardware-dependent software and run it on other boxes, and you can emulate the hardware, and run the OS like that. But a purpose-built machine will use purpose-built software.
This, actually, is the great strength of Linux, that it can be reassembled in so many different ways. We shouldn't then be surprised when it gets reconfigured so extensively that it can no longer work on our generic boxes.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
I can't help but wonder if the pairing of the new Dell "mini-Inspiron" with this netbook remix might be the real reason why no ISO is being released. Dell doesn't want impatient people buying devices like the Wind and Eee PC to put the Ubuntu software on, so maybe they convinced Ubuntu not to release an ISO right away to help promote the Dell's late-entering product.