Canonical aims for enterprise desktop with Ubuntu business remix

Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix, a new variant of the popular Linux distribution that has been customized for use in enterprise environments. It is based on Ubuntu 11.10, the current stable version of the distro, but it offers a slightly different set of packages in the default installation.

The business remix omits Ubuntu’s standard games, multimedia applications, and social networking tools. Instead, it adds a handful of enterprise-relevant packages, such as VMware View. The remix is free (as in beer) to download, but users are required to fill out a registration form on the Web before they will get access to the ISO.