Phase 1 of the school’s 1:1 netbook has begun (and I’m documenting some of my activity for that project in my Netbooks at NBCHS blog). This year, all teaching staff will be given a netbook to play and explore with. One of my first explorations has been to install the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. My findings so far is that it is has a much better interface and is more responsive than the pre-installed OS. The Unity GUI is designed specifically for the screen size of a netbook so my big sausage-like fingers can easily move the cursor into position without having to dance around a tinier icon that is the result of a scaled down version of a desktop GUI. I’ve left the Windows 7 partition on the computer only so I can use it for demos to students who … Continue reading »