How About a Seamless Android Sandbox for Ubuntu Netbook Remix?

Here’s an interesting set of problems that Canonical (the firm behind Ubuntu Linux) is trying to address:

1. Ubuntu Linux mature stable operating system. Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a great alternative to Microsoft Windows on netbooks. Unfortunately, while many apps for Linux are identical to what is available for Windows (e.g., Firefox and Thunderbird), many others are work-alikes modeled after Windows apps (e.g., OpenOffice.org) that are useable but not spectucular.

2. The Google Android platform is not quite ready for netbooks.

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