Many technology news sites have reported that there is a new special version of Ubuntu for UMPCs (ultra mobile PCs) / MID (mobile internet devices). These devices often have a touchscreen, no keyboard and connect to the internet by Wireless LAN or a mobile phone network. TamsPalm has had a look at an early developer’s demo version.
In the first part of this article, I wrote a list of applications appearing in the main menu:
- Pidgin 2.3.1 (client for several chat protocols)
- GPE File manager 0.2.5
- MidBrowser 0.3.0RC1 (similar to Firefox 3.0, web browser)
- Pimlico Tasks 0.1.3, Dates 0.4.6, Contacts 0.8 (personal organizer)
- Cheese (taking photos)
- Moblin Media 0.55-0ubuntu2 (music, photos, videos)
- Claws Mail 3.3.1
- Terminal Server Client 0.150 (frontend for rdesktop, vncviewer, wfica, xnest)
- Neverball
- Ekiga 2.0.12 (Voice over IP)
- FBReader (E-book reader)
- Foobillard
- Update Manager
- Neverputt
- Office Document Reader (converts MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to PDF files for Evince)
- Terminal (uxterm, bash)
- Frozen Bubble (game)
- Alarm Clock
- Galculator 1.3.1
- Mousepad 0.2.13 (simple text editor)
- Liferea 1.4.14 (RSS, … feed reader)
The other parts of this article with a closer look at the applications will be published soon.
