This is just a mockup that someone put together for a possible look and feel for the next Ubuntu release (Intrepid Ibex), which is due out in October. But. Wow. Yes. This is what it should look like.
If you were to run across gOS by buying a new netbook that shipped with it, we have no doubt you’d be impressed. While we have no doubt that gOS will ruffle some feathers, we also have no doubt that Mom and Dad won’t care one bit as they sit in the Maldives emailing “wish you were here” pictures of the beach.
Whether you choose Ubuntu or Kubuntu, you can’t really go wrong – Kubuntu is a solid distribution that is using a very cutting edge KDE. Wow your friends with the eye candy then tea bag the crap out of them in ET:QW, just turn a blind eye when an application crashes.
A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell’s answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini). Now we’ve gotten our hands on the full (internal) 910 web documentation. The system will go on sale in the US in just a few days—August 22nd our source says—but we still don’t know whether or not that $299 starting price is just a myth.
This is an alpha release and it shows. Intrepid is also definitely an incremental release of Ubuntu—more of a point release than an entirely new version. Aside from minor changes, the main addition is the new network configuration software that allows mobile and VPN connections. However, this is very young and the design needs to be refined.
In this article we head back into the “useful” side of Linux. Linux has a bad reputation of having to use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to do anything really useful. I will talk about some graphical interfaces for tools to get those “useful” things done.
While gOS is a great desktop for Internet cafe computers or the casual Internet user, there isn’t much reason to use it over Ubuntu itself. However, this distro wasn’t intended to appeal to professional Linux users, and new users will probably appreciate the easy access to some of the most commonly used Web 2.0 services.
For more than a year, Canonical - the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution - has been piecing together a global channel of partners, distributors and solutions providers. Now, Canonical is telling resellers that 11 percent of U.S. businesses already run Ubuntu.
Overall this version of Ubuntu Mobile Edition represents a good start toward making the Linux operating system a viable alternative to Windows for ultra portable devices.
The four vendors are working with their local business partners in markets around the world to build and distribute a pre-loaded PC offering that features IBM’s Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime; the Linux operating system of each distributor; and software applications and installation services from the various local affiliates.