[CoLoCo] good distro for umpc

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Tue Jul 29 23:47:31 BST 2008


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:
>
> If it will make you feel better, the Ubuntu mobile was spearheaded by Intel
> and Nokia.  It was being designed specifically for the Atom processors (i.e.
> MID devices such as the HP).  So, yeah, it's safe to think it should work.
> While the processor was being developed, they used Origami based UMPC
> machines.  So, this version of the OS was built from the get-go for small
> hand held devices.
>

I guess I should check it out. Thanks for the info.

>
>
> As an alternative though, have you thought about Xubuntu?
>

Yeah, I added the xubuntu desktop after installing ubuntu but it didn't seem
to be much different. Maybe that's cause I don't have a pure xubuntu but I
didn't think it would be much different the way I did it. I've also never
really liked xubuntu but then I've never really used it much either.

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