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Ubuntu to run on ARM-based Netbooks

 
Canonical has announced that it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices such as mobile phones, but it emerged in October that ARM's technology would soon ... (link)

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