I saw a Netbook Remix [1] demonstration at Ubucon a few days ago. I didn't mention it in the IRC meeting because I wanted to take some time to gather together a few URLs and look into it a bit. I hope you find this summary useful.
During the last few minutes of the Ubucon I believe it was the project leader, Neil Patel, that gave a live demonstration of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. The project, in cooporation with Intel, targets running Ubuntu on Netbook [2] computers running Intel Atom processors. Neil was using an Acer Aspire One [3] to give the presentation. In 2007 Intel launched the Moblin project [4]. The Remix fleshes out part of the broader Moblin project. IN practive, the Ubuntu Remix consists of only a few packages that can be added to any 8.04 desktop to accomodate smaller displays. It is based on the Gnome Hildon [5] application framework. The screenshots [6] help to visualize the result. My understanding is that Nautilus and the top and bottom Gnome desktop panels are being replaced with a full screen picker & favorites window (Applications/Places/System, with added support for a user-defined favorites category). Another daemon keeps all applications "maximized." The cloud computing / ultra portable market niches are good steps toward the coming array of even more screen limited MID devices with a "finger friendly" user interface. While the different form factors will each have different considerations they are clearly different ways of scaling down the current desktop metaphor while maintaining usability. Regards, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] https://launchpad.net/netbook-remix [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook - "Devices such as the Acer Aspire One, Dell E, OLPC XO-1, One A110, HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, ASUS Eee PC, CloudBook, Classmate PC, MSI Wind PC, Lenovo S9 and S10, or VIA OpenBook may fall in the category of Netbooks. Moblin project supports the device type." [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One [4] http://www.moblin.org "mobile & Internet linux" targeting Mobile Internet Devices (MID), In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and Netbooks and Nettops form factors. also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin_project [5] http://live.gnome.org/Hildon also sponsored by Nokia [6] http://flickr.com/photos/njpatel/tags/netbookremix/ -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
