My First Experience with UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix)
As yesterday’s release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, I thought I would gave Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 a try since I was going to reinstall Ubuntu on my netbook anyway. I downloaded UNR ISO image and created an USB installer through UNetBootIn. After I booted into the new Ubuntu live USB, I immediately clicked the installer to install onto the netbook. Surprisingly, the installer will minimize itself when installing after I entered required information. I found the windows selector at the top panel once I knew the installer is working. I clicked the installer icon to restore its window and found out that the interface is very compact compare to the desktop version of Ubuntu. The title bar for each window is near the windows selector.
After the installation was finished and rebooted, I first set up my GMail account through Evolution. The setup process was smooth without entering the details of IMAP gmail server. I then opened Firefox and installed Configuration Mania extension to change the way Firefox functions. The main reason I first installed this extension is because it helps me to configure the Firefox to select all when clicked on the address bar and to enable other useful features more easily. I noticed that Gwibber was not in the Favorite list. Because this app is one of the applications that I use most often, I added Gwibber into the Favorite easily from Internet list.
This is my first time use UNR. I usually had installed Ubuntu desktop edition onto my netbook. But because of this new version is the long term support release, I think that it’s more stable and more easier to use with the UNR LTS. In the end, I’ve already familiar with the UNR interface once I started to using it perhaps because I like its compact UI.