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HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the user-friendly-the-new-goal dept.

dan of the north writes to tell us that a new custom version of Ubuntu aimed at netbooks and based on 8.04 Hardy Heron has been released by HP. Targeted to the HP Mini 1000 Mi, the netbook customization comes complete with OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Pidgin, and a few others. "Overall, HP has created one of the best thought out Linux interfaces for netbooks. The software is designed so that users who have never used Linux should have no trouble performing basic tasks. But experienced Linux users can always fire up a terminal window by hitting Alt+F2 and entering 'gnome-terminal.'"

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  1. What Ubuntu? by rotteneffekt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It uses win3.1 file manager! Apart from the home screen, i don't see what's the big improvement, just another try to outbling apple's piano black darkness. A step in the right direction though.

  2. Re:Why 8.04? by spikeb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    not to mention 8.10 is a load of buggy crap that isn't being fixed.

  3. Re:Win+R by sexconker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's because Linux nerds hate MS so much that they refuse to acknowledge the existence of a "Windows key", and they have yet to agree on a "free" (as in Linux nerds) name for it.

    Also, Linux nerds use the old IBM 42H1292, which lack said key.

  4. Re:FOSS Humiliated By HP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thrash, dinosaur, thrash!