[CoLoCo] good distro for umpc

David Overcash funnylookinhat at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 00:15:26 BST 2008


Where do you live Jim?  Where's a good place to meet up? (We'll need to be
able to plug the computer in, yeah?)  Give me a time and place and I'm
there.

-David

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:

>
>
> 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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