While Asus had a few AMD powered mini-laptops on hand at CES in January, the company hasn’t really shown off any new Intel Atom powered netbooks so far this year. Sure, you could make the Eee PC ...

The Eee PC 1011PX features a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 single core processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. It has a 1024 x 600 pixel display and Intel GMA 3150 graphics.

The 1001PXD has an Intel Atom N455 processor, whereas the 1011PX and 1015PX each come with the higher spec Atom N570 processor. On Monday, Asus launched the Eee PC X101 which comes with the MeeGo ...

Asus is not releasing new netbooks to celebrate this momentous decision -- rather, it is retrofitting this year's Eee PC 1001PXD, 1011PX, and 1015PX with Ubuntu 10.10.

Canonical said that Asus has started shipping from June 1 three Eee PC models, the 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX, with Ubuntu 10.10 pre-installed.

That's not going to change anytime soon but apparently Asus is renewing its commitment to open source and has revealed it will start shipping some of its Eee PC netbooks with Ubuntu 10.10 preloaded.