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Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10

By Fabio on Friday August 14th 2009 08:33 | Category: Software

Ubuntu Karmic Koala which is due this October is comming along nicely. The new interface is showing just how serious the Ubuntu team is about the Netbook Remix spin off, it looks polished and actually good.

Ubuntu has endured tons of complaints about their brownish looks and is notorious for being an 'ugly' distro. While this is debatable (I for one love the colors, although I am colorblind..) but the strengths of the distro have always outweighed the weaknesses. It's real power lies in the system itself, the hardware support is amongst the greatest in the Linux world and it's hardly unstable yet still wonders about on the brinks of bleeding edge software.

Ever since the Jaunty Jackalope (or 9.04) release, there has been official netbook support in the form of a spin off called 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix' or UNR for short. Not only the looks but even the kernel itself has been optimized for the popular Intel Atom based devices. As for the look I didn't like it very much but the latest UNR Alpha release show a whole new interface which looks beautiful. I can see how this could come in handy with the upcoming tablet netbooks as well, see the screenshots above to see why.

The interface is very clean and clutterless. All icons are scalable which looks just amazing on any given screen. Okay I can figure on a 26" these icons would probably look like a hybrid Martha Steward vs Barbara Streisand but heck, they would look awesomely crispy.

Karmic is focused on Cloud computing using the Eucalyptus project so this should also provide additional features for low-end Netbooks although I haven't seen much of the Eucalyptus implementations yet.

More screenshots coming soon!

Get your Alpha copy now!

PLEASE NOTE: Although being a quite stable Alpha this software is still under heavy development so do not install it on production Machines.

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