A few screenshots of the Fedora KDE Netbook Remix

Jolicloud is a Linux-based operating system for netbooks. It is built upon Ubuntu and the earlier versions had a user interface which is quite similar to Ubuntu Netbook Remix. However, with Jolicloud 1.0, which has been launched just a few days back, things have changed. Instead of the old interface, Jolicloud 1.0 now has a [...]

The Kubuntu Team have unceremoniously decided to kill off Kubuntu Netbook Remix. When Kubuntu 10.10 is released this September, there will be no Kubuntu Netbook Remix. This does not however mean that Kubuntu will not be available for Netbook. Kubuntu Netbook Remix is basically Kubuntu with the KDE Plasma Netbook interface instead of the KDE [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat may have Chromium as the default browser which naturally means that the existing default browser Mozilla Firefox may be dropped!

Yes, Open Office is back in UNE 10.04 (Ubuntu Netbook Edition). A lot of drama has been happening around surrounding the exclusion of Open Office in UNE 10.04 . Rick Spencer, the guy behind UNE had initially decided to exclude Open Office from UNE 10.04. And surprisingly enough there was virtually no discussion about the features [...]

This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

As you may be aware, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala comes with the Netbook Plasma Shell. This is not an actual release but rather a technical preview. The Netbook Plasma Shell will officially be released with KDE 4.4, that is with Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. However, we decided to try it out in Karmic and it [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a actually a minor modification of the of the standard Ubuntu Desktop edition to enable it to work better on devices with small screens, such as netbooks (sub-notebooks) and mobile devices

Earlier today we reported about the release of the Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate. Now, the release candidate of all the official *buntus, that is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu and Edubuntu, are now available for download. If everything goes well these release candidates will go on to become the final version to [...]

The final release of Karmic Koala comes out in a week. Of all the variants of Karmic Koala coming out, Ubuntu is undoubtably the most well know with the largest userbase. While most of the long time users will have no doubts regarding which variant they want to use, new users tend to not know [...]

A lot has been said regarding the upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, – its new looks, new features etc. However, understandably, its KDE counterpart, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, has been largely ignored and not a great deal of noise has been made about it. Here, in this article, we look [...]

You just purchased a Netbook and are very happy with the portability it offers. But when you are at home, the portability hardly matters and you never use your netbook at home. Here are someways in which you could put your netbook to good use:

In this article we will show you how to optimize the Gnome Desktop of your Linux system (say you are using Ubuntu) so that you can maximize the viewable area of your Netbook Screen.

Netbooks are new in the market and people are bound to make mistakes while purchasing one. So here we present a few tips which will help you to purchase the best available netbook in the market.

Bloomberg reports that Asustek Computer Inc., may install Google`s free Android operating system on its netbooks challenging the dominance of Windows software. It also says that Asustek has already allocated engineers to develop an Android-based netbook.  Android is based on Linux and was launched by Google in 2007 as a full fledged Operating System for [...]

Dell has launched it`s brand new Netbook, Inspiron Mini 9n and as the Dell – Ubuntu tradition goes, this netbook ships with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).  This netbook boasts of Fast boot-up and application launch and resistance to shock to protect you data. The base model for the Netbook is priced at USD 249. This [...]