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Test drive: Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” Beta on the EEEPC 900

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Again, with the coming of spring, also Ubuntu upgrade season is arriving. Last upgrade season left me quite unhappy since the new Ubuntu user interface “Unity”, released with the netbook edition performed very poorly on my EEEPC. Now the new release has reached the beta stage and I decided to try it, in live mode, to see if any improvements have been made.

 

Download and install

 

As it has been previously announced by the news there isn’t any more a Ubuntu “Netbook edition” (even if somebody may think that only the netbook edition has been made available this time) I so downloaded the standard Ubuntu 32 bit ISO file from here and prepared a bootable SD card as usual with the utility available in Ubuntu.

 

First impressions

 

Here is how the new release looks like:

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