[Wolves] Ubuntu on Wolverhampton High Street and UMPC redux

[Stephen Welch]

Hi Penguin.

2008/8/8 Political Penguin <fish at politicalpenguin.org.uk>:

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> I decided to have a little look at the kit on offer and then it struck me,
> that the laptop, or to be precise netbook/UMPC (think it was an Elonex one)
> had a desktop that looked familiar. To be precise a brownish coloured gnome
> desktop. Anyway, just wanted to share that with people, I think that's the
> first time I've seen Ubuntu running on a pc in a shop and it was a pleasant
> surprise.

Wow. That is a first for Ubuntu and probably a first for Wolverhampton
if you exclude the traffic lights!!

> I also wondered if anyone has or is planning on picking up one of these
> UMPC/netbooks and if it didn't come with some pre-installed version of Linux
> like Xandros on the EeePC's then how they got on?

On an aside I installed the netbook remix on my eee 701 running 8.04
and the UI looks good for these sort of laptops it was a little bit
clunky but some people have reported getting it running well.  Have
you tried this or anyone else?  I really look forward to an official
release.

I read sometime ago that mobile or specialist hardware (embedded
devices) running some sort of linux version will lead the way with
spreading the use linux into homes and the hands of the general
public.   This appears to be the case!!

Stephen