Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 Released
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC, submitted by Michael
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 Mobile Internet Device Edition, a version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution geared towards netbooks, mobile internet devices, UMPCs, subnotebooks, or whatever they're called this day of the week. It has a whole slew of optimisations geared specifically towards Intel's Atom platform, as well as a set of open source applications designed specifically for MIDs, all courtesy of Intel's Moblin project.
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Looks pretty sweet... but
by intangible on Tue 24th Jun 2008 23:56 UTC
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2005-07-06

Looks pretty sweet, but the target market for this doesn't really seem to exist just yet, at least on x86.
All the x86 internet tablets I've seen are basically just subnotebooks, or really really expensive, or both.
I'd install it today if they had an ARM version. I think it would be a lot more useful to me than Maemo on my N800.

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RE: Looks pretty sweet... but
by atezun on Wed 25th Jun 2008 00:14 UTC in reply to "Looks pretty sweet... but"
atezun Member since:
2005-07-06

That's definitely what I'd like to see too. I'd much rather run Ubuntu on my N800 than maemo at the maemo. That said the maemo platform is slowly improving and my views on it are constantly changing.

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RE: Looks pretty sweet... but
by Karitku on Wed 25th Jun 2008 08:19 UTC in reply to "Looks pretty sweet... but"
Karitku Member since:
2006-01-12

Looks huge, I mean the top taskbar seems to eat lot of space also some controls looked very big compared to screen size. I just hope it's due viewing them on large screen. Hope to see products soon.

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RE[2]: Looks pretty sweet... but
by dagw on Wed 25th Jun 2008 13:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Looks pretty sweet... but"
dagw Member since:
2005-07-06

Looks huge,

"Huge" is generally a good thing on small screens, since it gives you a larger target to hit. And since you'll generally only be doing one thing at the time on such small devices, as long as you can have whatever you're working on open full screen, then the size of the other controls won't matter.

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That's not right?
by TLZ_ on Wed 25th Jun 2008 06:42 UTC
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2007-02-05

"...geared towards netbooks, mobile internet devices, UMPCs, subnotebooks, or whatever they're called this day of the week. "

My understanding is that there is a "Ubuntu Netbook Remix" that are for netbooks/subnotebooks/UMPC's and this one is for the smaller, keyboardless internet devices with touch-screen such as the Nokia N810.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Edited 2008-06-25 06:49 UTC

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Sometimes...
by HangLoose on Wed 25th Jun 2008 13:25 UTC
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2007-09-03

I wonder how over stretched can Canonical become with all of this different and multiple flavors of Ubuntu in a development/maintainability way...

JeOS, Server Edition, Desktop and now MID... And of course this isnt the only thing that they develop. I mean, nothing against it, if they are going still to be providing Ubuntu in such a good shape, who am I to be say something...

You sure dont have time for some web browsing during work there ;)

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