Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Before pulling out of the netbook market in the end of 2011, Dell was one of the few big computer manufacturers that offered netbooks with a pre-installed version of Linux, Ubuntu Netbook Remix to be precise.

Here's another video with impressions of the new Unity user interface in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 showing the quite radical changes compared to the UI in version 10.04. There is a new launcher on the left for quick access to you favorite applications, a workspaces feature for separating running applications, and applications and files panes displaying recently and most used items.

This video posted in the blip.tv Ubuntu Developers channel demonstrates multitouch capabilities provided by the uTouch gesture framework in Ubuntu Unity on a Dell Latitude XT2 laptop. To learn more about multitouch support in the current and future Ubuntu releases visit the Multitouch wiki page.

Ubuntu 10.10, code named Maverick Meerkat, was officially released today. You can take a quick look at the new Unity user interface of Ubuntu Netbook Edition in this short video.
Unity looks pretty good and well suited for being used on small screen devices, but will it really change how we think about our use of computers?