Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Quick and easy (tm) Ubuntu Netbook Remix

I've blogged about UNR before, but just thought I'd email just how easy it is to get up and running with this great version of Ubuntu specifically for Netbooks.

1. Download the ISO from http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook
2. Use the USB Startup Disk Creator to burn it to a USB stick (or burn it to a CD, but you'd need an external CD drive for that, USB sticks are MUCH easier)
3. Boot from the USB stick and install Ubuntu via the installer

That's the main bit. I've just done it in 10 minutes from start to finish.

As additional extras, if you enable the "partner" repositories in Software Sources, then install the "ubuntu-restricted-extras" and "sun-java6-plugin" packages, you'll have all the common software such as flash and java all pre-configured.

Wonderful.