Monday, April 19, 2010
You’re probably familiar with at least one “Instant On” OS as a lot of manufacturers, these days especially, like to ship their own versions of SplashTop. These OSes sacrifice general functionality and focus on a few specific most often used apps so that they can boot you as fast as possible into the OS and get you to that browser immediately. Well that’s the goal anyway.
Canonical of Ubuntu fame, has just released their own lightweight OS called Ubuntu Light which seems to have two main focuses. One is developing a lightweight netbook interface (Unity) and the other is the Instant On OS itself aimed at netbooks and desktops.
Ubuntu Light Features
- Boots into the web in 7 seconds - on a Dell Mini 10v
- Vertical app launcher spaces vertical space
- App launcher will be optimized for touch - finger friendly
- Global panel which integrates app window icons
- Will be optimized for hardware to boot as fast as possible
- Netbook interface (Unity) still being developed - will make it into the next Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10
A download is available right now for OEMs and for you individuals to test out. (it’ll run on top of Ubuntu 10.04)
Source: Mark Shuttleworth
