http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/ Engadget Comments for Pegatron's Ubuntu-equipped netbook spotted in the wild http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/MS, would have to port it, and they're the reason we're all on AMD64 rather than IA64.
They don't want to port _shit_,

This makes me very happy. Hardware manufacturers choosing to not let people that sell... nothing(software doesn't actually exist, y'all) tell them what they can and can't put in their products.
They want to make it work better? Have some of their programmers write some code to implement the behaviour they desire.
I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, but it's a step in the right direction.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 23rd 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/It's just ideas.
It's all theory and implementation. A word doesn't exist, the pencil marks on the paper exist, the paper exists. The word is an idea.
Software is an idea.
I don't get the idea of charging money for permission to use an idea.]]>Nov 23rd 2009 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
if you don't want to buy a book (paper, pencil marks), you're welcome to write it for yourself (not paying for the idea), just like you're free to write the software (idea) for yourself if you don't want to pay for the dvd]]>Nov 23rd 2009 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/There isn't a difference. That was the point.
The word is not the pencil marks, nor is software the flipped bits on a platter or pits in an optical disc.

Software is ideas. Math.

"2" doesn't exist. It's a description of a situation.]]>Nov 23rd 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
If Ubuntu gets properly customized for this machine, it will run just fine. ]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/I also know Pegatron is going to mainly use ARM chips for their netbooks/tablets/laptops and focus on Linux and Android.
How do I know this ? Because I read it on Engadget months ago !]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Ubuntu: Doing it Wrong.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/They're only in the OS game for the money...]]>Nov 22nd 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
Hopefully more ARM applications/daemons are available from the repositories at the time ARM smartbooks are getting widespread.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/don't ban me please]]>Nov 22nd 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Debian. Less by default, slightly harder to install, but it actually works if you change things.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Ubuntu 9.10 needed to add one driver after installation for my nVidia graphics card, which the OS did automatically for me upon my first boot of the freshly-installed OS.
Windows 7 installed with NO drivers of any useful nature, providing me with a 16-colour, 800x600 display (on my 1440x900 monitor). I had to use another computer to find windows drivers for my LAN chip so that I could get the computer online to find the numerous drivers required to make it run normally.

In other words, Windows was frustrating to install because of driver issues, while Linux just worked. Oh how the tables have turned.]]>Nov 23rd 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/That´s the key. Most of the magic is in optimizing the configuration for hardware like this.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
The dual-core A9s should close the gap with Atom, especially if some of the embedded graphics processors that are usually included in ARM-based chips get supported by Flash for video acceleration. Anyone know if that's feasible? Sounds to me like something those video chip manufacturers should be paying Adobe to implement...]]>Nov 22nd 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 23rd 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
Still should be interesting to see how much performance one can get out of what is basically smartphone technology on steroids.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
No one cares about Windows Server.
Please relax.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Ubuntu
>adventurous

Lol wat.]]>Nov 22nd 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/Nov 22nd 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/22/pegatrons-ubuntu-equipped-netbook-spotted-in-the-wild/
Nice Tats man!]]>Nov 22nd 2009 8:14PM