Ubuntu, pronouced as ‘oo-boon-too’ is a linux operating system which many might have heard, but never tried. In this semester, my subjects require me to play around with linux systems. As you guys know, I am an Ubuntu supporter and have been using it on my desktop for a few years.  Ubuntu has a consistent release for their distribution, and as far as I’m concern, they keep improving so much from day to day. The only problem they experience is the hardware part, since most of the hardware and its drivers are meant for Windows or Mac. Hardware developers are reluctant to give support for Linux drivers, but I guess the Linux community never gives up and tries their best to create drivers for almost any PC hardware.

Recently, there was this new distribution called Ubuntu Netbook Remix(UNR) introduced and I was eager to try it but I didn’t have a netbook to try it. And if you have read my previous posts, you would know that I got a HP Mini 210 netbook from Streamyx. I didn’t immediately try the UNR since I had to get used to the netbook with Windows 7 itself. After getting to know that I need to be using Linux for this semester’s subjects, I thought of giving it a try. The latest version is 10.04, Lucid Lynx and they changed the name from UNR to Ubuntu Netbook Edition(UNE).

I was a little worried because UNR didn’t have support for Wubi(a software which allows you to install Ubuntu without the need of changing the file system) but I just found out that it was included in 10.04 so it made my life easier. I installed it and here you go, this is an image of my main/desktop screen.

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Default browser firefox with google homepage

Skype running on Ubuntu

Empathy Messenger, chat with your MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, and
even your Facebook friends. All in just one messenger.

Audacity is an audio editing and mixing tool.
Its a very simple and easy software to edit or record your audio.

Now this is the part where you will be amazed. This is running on my simple netbook without any sophisticated graphic card. There are many more amazing stuffs but it’s a little hard to capture it as an image. So my suggestion is, try it out yourself and you may get to experience this ->

Multiple desktops running at one time. You can switch to any desktops you want at anytime.

How about this ? – >

Desktop Cube, to simply show off that you have a cool netbook.

Ubuntu Software Center, all the software you need is right here.
There is no need to go around the net to find for software’s anymore.
If you download through this, your software’s will be updated automatically when there is any updates through the Update Manager.

This is a screen where many don’t like to see.
It’s the terminal or we call it command promt in Windows.
It’s usually black and white or some static colors.
But just look at this, it has my image in it !! It’s transparent !!

Its just a simple review of what I have been testing for the past few days. I seem to like it and I guess I’m going to continue using it on my netbook.
Why don’t you guys give it a try too ?? Have fun !!

Just visit their official website and download it :
www.ubuntu.com