Office 2010 Professional HP releases netbook inter

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Hewlett Packard has introduced a custom edition of Ubuntu Linux designed for netbooks. For the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition, for being specific. Below the hood, the running system is depending on Ubuntu eight.04 Hardy Heron. Meaning it might run pretty a lot any application that runs on Ubuntu including OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and Pidgin. In reality, it arrives preloaded with all of people programs in addition several more. It's also relatively straightforward to install other Linux staples like image editor GIMP.
But what tends to make the Mi Edition application stand out will be the graphical person interface which seems absolutely nothing like Ubuntu or even Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Whenever you first boot up the Mi Edition software you are greeted using a display using a internet search engine,Office 2010 Professional, a list of favored web sites, and shortcuts for your music and images. Should you click the Begin New Plan button, a method launcher will open that separates your programs into Net, Media, Utilities, Operate, Play, and All tabs. The settings manager demonstrates you everything you would locate inside the standard Ubuntu settings screens, but it really is organized within a new way that makes it easier to search out what you are trying to find with less clicks.
HP has also extra a custom media player known as HP MediaStyle that looks a lot like Apple's FrontRow. MediaStyle gives you with a basic complete display screen interface for navigating audio, video clips, and pictures.

General, HP has designed on the list of best assumed out Linux interfaces for netbooks. The computer software is created to ensure consumers who have never ever used Linux really should have no difficulty doing standard duties. But seasoned Linux users can constantly fire up a terminal window by hitting Alt+F2 and getting into "gnome-terminal."

The computer software comes preloaded on some HP netbooks. But HP also plans to publish a utility on its web page in the up coming few days that can permit you to create a program restore USB flash disk from Windows. It is possible to already generate one if you are operating Linux. You'll be able to use this utility to either restore a Mi Edition netbook to factory default settings or to turn a Windows XP HP Mini 1000 into a Mi Edition device. I would not advise anyone to try out employing this set up disk on unsupported hardware as you'll probably stop up with an running program that doesn't support your WiFi card or other hardware.

It really is not obvious regardless of whether HP ideas to supply the application for non-netbooks. But if you need to try incorporating setting up the user interface above a normal Ubuntu installation, you'll be able to attempt including the HP repositories and employing the Synaptic package deal supervisor to put in a bundle referred to as glassy-bleu-theme.


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