[ Thanks to steve
hill for this link. ]
“Lately, there has been a lot of noise about Ubuntu’s Netbook
Remix. In an unrelated (and definitely lucky) interview with The
Guardian, Mark Shuttleworth hinted that Canonical were about to
announce a version of Ubuntu for a new class of devices created by
accident by Asus with the EeePc (talk about corporate
luck…). Th buzz about this was monumental.
But… what is Ubuntu Netbook Remix? Here is the
answer…“Ubuntu Remix is a bit of an odd project. It’s very new, and
things are likely to change very quickly–especially when we start
seeing devices that use it natively. However, at the moment Netbook
Remix is both a set of freely available packages, and an internal
project at Canonical that aims at supporting sub-notebook OEMs
directly…”