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Recently Fujitsu launched their first MeeGo based netbook, the Fujitsu LIFEBOOK MH330, in the Asia Pacific region and today Linpus Technologies announced that the operating system running on the netbook is a customized version of Linpus Lite for MeeGo in this press release.
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?
Right after yesterday's Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 beta release anouncement we can take a quick look at the upcoming version in this video. Besides faster boot speeds the new Unity user interface brings about the most obvious changes.
We saw a preview of MeeGo for netbooks last month at the IDF 2010 and yesterday MeeGo v1.0 was released to the public.
The 1st stable release of the Maemo/Moblin successor provides developers with a solid core software platform based on Linux kernel 2.6.33 to create applications for the Netbook User Experience project. Current features include:
This video by JKKmobile recorded at CeBIT 2010 gives us a taste of Linpus Linux Lite 1.3 running on an Acer Aspire One netbook.
The new version of the Fedora based netbook operating system features a new user interface, that allows users to organize applications in tabs and rearrange them via drag and drop.