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Canonical Talks Netbook Remix Details

Posted by timothy on from the smart-niche dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not available? by lupis42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which, to my mind, is kind of annoying. I would dearly like to see ISOs for the MSI Wind that I plan on buying, or the eeePC that my wife might wind up getting.

  2. Re:Not available? by Fry-kun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Makes perfect sense to me.
    They're required by GPL to provide the sources to anyone who purchases one of those notebooks. They're not required to post the ISOs, though.

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  3. Re:Not available? by LotsOfPhil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder how long it will take for a CentUbuntu to pop up and make ISOs for those who don't want to install from .debs.

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  4. Re:Not available? by manekineko2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do you replicate a 5-10 second start time? I have an eeePC and was thinking about switching from its default Xandros, but the 5-10 second Xandros boot time that is replicated by Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a key feature.