yes dan it’s easy to boot images from usb on these netbooks and anyone with an atom processor will have an optimal experience if not full support for their device but the real use of this remix approach is to have the fundamental nix on the netbook and alternative os boots on cards and sticks. i hope asus update their default flavour of xandros for the eeepc900 series to something more like this.

the idea of touchscreen netbooks seems to still be on the increase, many users have literally hacked them in already and companies are all chatting about their release dates, personally i await a dualscreen like a nintendo ds style netbook with a touchscreen virtual keyboard that can dissappear to be used on it’s side as an interactive book with facing pages! ebooks will come back i tell you…

oh and note everybody, hardware costs money, data costs time.

It would seem that people are placing themselves on either sides of the fence and shouting out opinions in the hope that the loudest shall prevail. sounds awfully like our wonderfully standard democratic model.

Me, Myself and I. Not to be outdone i will talk a bit about my position, though i will be akin to those spineless dweebs of every government who sit in the middle and bleet with whoever will provide more benefit to there position. oh if only i werent a sheep.

I would have liked to have an iso image for the simple reason that i could boot it as a live distro and see what it was like – i have been looking for exactly this kind of software for the last two days (about 10 hours of steady research and forum posting) and now that i have found it i would love to try it out. It pains me not to….

However i appreciate the companies position and am so grateful for all the hard work they have all ready put in that i would never dream of asking for more. so here i am stuck with having to wait until i get home and fireup some old clapper of a machine and install it on that to see how it performs (at grandparents place minus a muck around pc )

So there you have it would want it (really bad) but would never ask for it. its so much more work for as stated little gain. perhaps some other group can put a live disc enviroment together. Not entirely sure how much work is involved in this.

Here is a question, with what has been given to us (the comunity) is it possible to mount or files onto a usb and boot off of that. or is it that without the live cd iso that this cannot be generated.

tata

Unfortunately, the soccer moms are turning down linux and going for XP. I was saddened that I have no OS choice with the new Acer One that is coming out. They opted to put XP on all their new netbooks.

You have no idea what you are talking about. You must be a huge corporate ass kisser (where ever you work). Canonical is a business, but that don’t give them the right or justification to restrict Ubuntu. Unfortunately, I think these words are wasted on you – you just don’t understand free open source software. Canonical is important for Ubuntu. However, they don’t own Ubuntu, they are not responsible for the success of Ubuntu – they are a reasonably large part of the Ubuntu community and Shuttleworth is a pioneer (don’t confuse that with his company). Nothing more, nothing less. Look up the word community in your dictionary.

Much smaller distros than Ubuntu manage to release ISOs without financial support. The community could and would support it if it was a normal release. I.e. a version of Ubuntu with fixes, not a new distro which this IS – regardless of what they say. You forget that GNU/Linux is not about companies, it is about communities (including companies). Thus there is only one reason for doing this. They want more control over free software in commercial interest.

Intel are probably paying them to do this. It sucks. The innovation coming from the community will go into this “product” and it will not be accessible to the mainstream user (the target group for Ubuntu) unless they buy some fancy (Intel) hardware.

Secondly, it will be labelled as a official Ubuntu edition and gain the same status as Desktop and Server – and thus push other, more open solutions, to the back room.

Will that Atom optimized code go into the desktop distro in the same fashion? Will those touch-screen interfaces be accessible to the desktop distro? Will those boot optimizations be available for us? Will manufactures release drivers for their touch screens or will they restrict access to partners (such as Canonical Netbook Remix)? Probably not, because then we don’t need Ubuntu Netbook Remix at all – just a few scripts optimizing the desktop platform.

Canonical is perhaps starting to foster a free open source movement working for them, not a community working together.. this is a frog leap into the past!

Should Canonical release isos for UNR? Why? That support should be through the manufacturer’s webpage. Need to reinstall UNR-HP on your laptot, you download from HP.com, not Ubuntu.com.

I see the lack of isos for UNR as protecting Canonical’s ability to sell UNR to manufacturers. Readily available generic isos from Canonical would make it too easy for UNR to be installed and end users expecting support that has never been paid for. Then who benefits?

The 5-10sec boot time may be partly due to flash storage and SSD, but I think those times are really coming from LinuxBIOS, which further complicates the concept of releasing a generic downloadable iso for public consumption.

OTOH, the source will be available anyways so if you absolutely had to have a netbook remix of something other than Ubuntu this could probably be accomplished by springboarding off of Canonical’s work. But lets not forget that Canonical is a business, not a charity, and that there is nothing wrong with turning a profit off of open source software.