HP releases custom Netbook version of Ubuntu Linux (ZDNet)

ZDNet covers HP's release of the Mini 1000 Mi netbook, which features a customized version of Ubuntu. "The operating system is based on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, and can run pretty much any application that normally runs on Ubuntu, including OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin and so forth — with which the OS conveniently comes preloaded. (You’ll have to install GIMP, though.) On the other hand, the GUI hardly resembles Ubuntu, according to DownloadSquad’s Brad Linder."

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