Ubuntu Netbook Remix: a detailed explanation  Ubuntu Netbook
Remix: a detailed explanation   A two-faced project   The
packages  From the outside, for us hackers, Ubuntu Netbook Remix
is simply a small set of installable packages which do very
specific things. The Launchpad page for Netbook Remix has quite
a bit of information about the project. From there, you are sent
to the package list for Ubuntu Remix. I installed it and am
currently using it on the only laptop I own right now: a
glorious EeePC I am a huge fan of. For the lazy readers, the
Netbook Remix project has the following packages:   This is a
tiny applet that will display the desktop when pressed. This is
the package that left me most puzzled: the stock version of
Gnome already comes with an applet that does exactly the same
thing, so I wondered why on Earth they wrote another one. I
looked at the source code, and noticed a few references to
drag&drop... In the end, I humbly gave in and asked Neil J Patel
directly (shame on me) and he explained m