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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. How is this new? by Taibhsear · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu EEE (now called easy peasy)

  2. Re:FOSS Humiliated By HP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love it when someone is dumb enough to try to use the word 'dinosaur' as an insult.

    How many millions of years did the dinosaurs dominate the Earth?

    How many millions of years have humans? 200,000 for modern humans. 1-2 for the primitive humans.

    Save your shit talking for another couple hundred million years you Bearded GNU Freak. Less frisbee golf, bong hits, and Star Trek conventions and more coding. Linux is so shitty that even in the worst economic conditions in decades, Microsoft on the PR ropes with Vista that a fucking free for everyone Linux is going exactly no where in the marketplace.

  3. Re:FOSS At Its Best by icebike · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, lets DO dumb it down for those lease interested.

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