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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. 5-10 seconds?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not even enough time for me to get my pants off!

  2. Not available? by pablomme · · Score: 5, Informative

    Canonical does not plan to make the Netbook remix available for download or sale Not true. The won't make them available as ISOs ready for installation (since apparently they don't recommend it), but the packages can be downloaded from Launchpad.
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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 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.