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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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.