Ubuntu Team has launched the Small Screen edition of their popular Operating System Ubuntu 8.04 for developers so that they can test and make necessary changes to their desktop applications to better match the smaller screen sizes and processing power of these devices as well as take advantage of the touchscreen interface to improve the user experience.

Ubuntu MID Edition targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu MID, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, is redefining what can be done in mobile computing.
Ubuntu MID Edition, a fully open source project, gives the full Internet and the right applications provide an uncompromised Web 2.0 experience: Web browsing, email, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, simple software updates and lots more.
Here are some more screenshots of Ubuntu MID


You can read more about Ubuntu MID edition here.
[via Download Squad]
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Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition is going to a big hit soon. I really want to test it out somewhere with the touch screen thing. I’m sure it will be so cool.
Thanks for the article Siddharth.
Ramesh
The Geek Stuff
most welcome
i really love Ubuntu and my rooms is meesedup with 10′s of Ubuntu Disk
will surely give this a go
all the best
i love windows
windows is best os
I love windows too but also Ubuntu
Never used anything except Windows so cant say anything about it
but this Mobile Edition looks cool
ubuntu is cool too
also with the fail of vista many people have switched to xp or linux