EasyPeasy and the Challenges of Linux Netbook Design (Datamation)

[Posted April 28, 2010 by ris]

Bruce Byfield reviews EasyPeasy, an Ubuntu based distribution for netbooks. "Netbook desktops in free and open source software (FOSS) are in a state of rapid development. Should a netbook be treated as more as a mobile device than as a laptop? Should developers assume that netbooks are used for light computing such as social networking, rather than for productivity? These are just two of the questions whose answers affect the design of any netbook desktop. However, you would have to search long and hard to find any distribution that answers such questions as openly as the EasyPeasy distribution does in its 1.6 release candidate (RC)."

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