Here at Boing Boing Gadgets, we leave the foaming rants about the uselessness of MIDs to Beschizza, who can’t post about one without hunting down a gazelle, ripping out its throat with his teeth and smearing its blood all over his pasty British torso while screaming and staring directly into the sun. Suffice to say, Joel and I feel similarly about them, without all the festering primal rage: Beschizza can be our avatar in this.
With that said, Canonical has quietly released their own MID-specific version of Hardy Heron for mobile internet devices. The big features include a Gecko-based browser with screen zooming for tiny displays and the usual, lovely Linux OS, optimized for all current and last generation Intel MID chipsets. If you’ve got a McCaslin or Menlow-based MID, you can download it now. It looks great, though doubtless that’s simply because they seem to have jettisoned the merconium-brown default color scheme for this release.
Ubuntu MID Edition [Ubuntu]
And just cause it’s so…meconium is dark green.
I’m trying to get a handle on Linux via Ubuntu on my secondary PC using a dual boot setup alongside WinXP.
There is a learning curve (steep for me), but for a free operating system I’m blown away at it’s coolness.
I hope the MID folks get some coolness out of this too!
Was that meconium you meant? And, if so, that’s as disturbing an image as the gazelle-hunting one.
Thanks, John Brownlee, I always enjoy your posts.
Cthulhu has at last recycled his maddening whispers that no doubt serve as the source from which you derive your inspiration. Behold: “…and all you want to do is feel its jelly squick between your toes as you jump up and down on it, laughing maniacally and staring into the sun.”