Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has just announced that they are preparing a “Netbook Remix” of Ubuntu especially made for subnoteboks such as the Eee PC I just bought! They are working with Intel, which are the ones who came up with the term “Netbook” to describe that segment.
This is great news, although not very surprising. Since Ubuntu is probably the first distro that people think of for consumer-oriented PCs, this is a very smart segment for them to target due to its explosive growth in the past year.
Hopefully it will be more than just a few UI changes to target smaller screens, but will also contain battery-saving enhancements to the rest of the system (such as minimizing disk usage, more aggressive CPU throttling when necessary, etc.)
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