Make Ubuntu Look Like the HP Mobile Internet Experience

If you’re impressed by HP’s Mobile Internet Experience — a Linux distro that comes with their netbooks — and want it on your tiny laptop, you don’t have to struggle with getting it to work with your hardware.  At least, not quite as hard.  German site Netbook News put together instructions for adding to and modifying the distribution MIE is based on — Ubuntu — so that it looks and behaves mostly the same.

Right now the instructions are in German, but here’s a handy Google translation.  We’re thinking of trying this with one of the netbooks we have around (the Joybook U101 is so lonely right now…), but do you think it’s worth the effort?  Is the Mobile Internet Experience just that great?

Hat Tip: Liliputing