<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> [Part of article not copied over - go to article itself to read the missing bit.] ........................................ Google chimes in So, in true Linux geek fashion, there's evidently been a concerted effort to get Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution of all time, up and running on the device. And running it now is, if the YouTube video below is any indication. <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/207283/12_reasons_to_try_ubuntu_1010_now.html" target="_blank">Ubuntu 10.10</a>, or Maverick Meerkat, is running on the device in that video, and despite the fact that the whole purpose of sending out the notebooks was to test Chrome OS, a separate post on Google's own site even offers a <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/cr-48-chrome-notebook-developer-information/how-to-boot-ubuntu-on-a-cr-48" target="_blank">tutorial</a> on making that happen. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/how-ubuntu-linux-could-help-googles-cr-48-notebook-647">http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/how-ubuntu-linux-could-help-googles-cr-48-notebook-647</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- "Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die." </pre> </body> </html>