The folks at System76 announced today that they’re launching a new high performance 15.6 inch laptop called the Pangolin. It’s a big heavy machine that I’m not particularly interested in, but when I saw the news I decided to take a peek at the company’s 10 inch Starling NetBook page and I noticed that System76 has updated the processor without…

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Linux system builder System76 has quietly bumped up the specs for its Starling NetBook. For $385 this 10 inch mini-laptop comes with Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition and a 3 cell battery. It also now includes a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core processor. Since the Starling NetBook isn’t bound by Microsoft’s hardware restrictions for Windows 7 Starter, there are also…

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Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu Linux this weekend, to much fanfare. But while Ubuntu 10.10 is the latest… not everyone is convinced it’s the greatest. Linux computer system builders System76 has decided it wont’t be offering netbooks with Ubuntu 10.10. Instead, the company’s Starling Netbook will continue to ship with Ubuntu 10.04. The latest version of Ubuntu Netbook…

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While I’d never recommend buying an Intel Atom powered netbook as a hardcore gaming machine, the truth of the matter is that a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU and GMA 950 graphics are good enough for some games. And that’s not only true for netbooks running Windows. The video below depicts a System76 Starling Netbook running Ubuntu 9.10 Linux. And…

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