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Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld)
ComputerWorld looks
at Ubuntu Linux Remix, a lightweight version of Ubuntu aimed at
"netbook" computers. "A key difference with the Remix from the
standard desktop Ubuntu Linux is the inclusion of a "launcher" that allows
users to start the machines and get online quickly, Carr said. "There are
also lots of tweaks for the Intel Atom chips, and optimization, too, for
the flash drive [rather than disk-based spinning hard drives] and for other
underlying technologies. Probably the major difference ... is that this is
very much a device-tied OS" aimed specifically at netbook
architectures."
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Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 4, 2008 2:39 UTC (Wed) by larryn (guest, #3457) [Link] Hmm..a light weight Linux distribution won't be available for free download? Did I have too many beers? It's been awhile since I've read the GPL but I believe if you offer it to the public, you must provide source to the public. I guess they will only provide it to the one who will buy the laptop that has Remix?
Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 4, 2008 7:35 UTC (Wed) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750) [Link] Ubuntu Mobile is all there in the archives, including the LPIA port. One thing is that it's not really completely ready yet (as seen in the article's estimated shipping times), and I think that the main point is that this is meant for the vendors to customize heavily (UI look and feel) so it's not "include this Ubuntu on your netbook and it will look the same as everyone else's". One can install ordinary Ubuntu, or some default mobile combination of packages on these netbooks also, if one wants and the vendor is not somehow restricting it. But I'd see that this Remix is simply not meant for end users, so a ready made freely (gratis) downloadable _product_ is not made available at this point, unless of course the community does so.
Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 4, 2008 9:14 UTC (Wed) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link] This is just my guess: It seems that the Netbook Remix isn't meant to be used on general devices, but rather it will be tailored to specific ones. It will ship on those models, and will come with source or a link to the source, as per the GPL (and other relevant licenses). Consequently, the Ubuntu website will contain the source, but not a pre-built version that users can just download and run. I presume this is what the article means by 'will not be available'. Note that the GPL never said you must provide pre-built binaries, just source, although one might speculate about a FOSS license that does include such a provision (I am unaware of such). Anyhow, if I'm right, then people will be free to download the source and try to get it running on other devices, which might be easy or hard to do. For example, Ubuntu is collaborating with Intel here, and Atom is very prominent in all of this, so perhaps Atom-specific code will be utilized, which might make it hard to run the Netbook Remix on non-Atom devices. That said, this is Linux, so I'm willing to bet we'll see community-made versions of the Netbook Remix for popular devices like the (non-Atom) Asus Eee, etc.
Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 4, 2008 13:05 UTC (Wed) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] In this case, "Remix" means customised derivative; "Netbook" is the flavour of that remix (derivative). In the future there will be many remixes as an attempt to avoid diluting the main *buntu brand and trademark too heavily:
Ubuntu offers Remix, a lighter Linux for mobile users (ComputerWorld) Posted Jun 4, 2008 16:39 UTC (Wed) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] Indeed - the title of the ComputerWorld article is wrong (and its contents), as the new distro is Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which makes a lot more sense. Confirmed by press release: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/netbook-remix Maybe LWN could fix its article by saying "Ubuntu [Netbook] Remix" to make it clear they've added the Netbook where needed.
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