OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21610/Acer_To_Use_Moblin_Linux_Across_Range_of_Products Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:41 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Question http://osnews.com/thread?366855 http://osnews.com/thread?366855 I thought Moblin was a discrete distribution: I'm not sure how "Xandros Moblin" or "Suse Moblin" etc. makes sense; that impression was re-enforced by wandering through moblin.org for twenty seconds. While moblin.org never uses the word "distribution" that I saw, the thing they describe sounds like a complete, discrete operating system, not something that would be included as a component of an existing Linux distribution.
Is the problem here with the information in the linked/abridged article, or with my understanding of what Moblin is? Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (boldingd) Comments RE: Question http://osnews.com/thread?366863 http://osnews.com/thread?366863
I thought Moblin was a discrete distribution: I'm not sure how "Xandros Moblin" or "Suse Moblin" etc. makes sense; that impression was re-enforced by wandering through moblin.org for twenty seconds. While moblin.org never uses the word "distribution" that I saw, the thing they describe sounds like a complete, discrete operating system, not something that would be included as a component of an existing Linux distribution. Is the problem here with the information in the linked/abridged article, or with my understanding of what Moblin is?


From what understand it is the technical basis to which distributions can base their customised and branded version of Linux on - it also provides the opportunity for OEM's to brand their Linux version as a unique experience for their users rather than it being yet another linux netbook. Basically it is what was attempted by UnitedLinux but dedicated for Netbooks. I hope that this idea is actually expanded upon and we see in the future a notebook/laptop version as well to bring so coherency to the distributions.

PS: The WAP wesbite is broken, I tried to send this via my mobile phone, however, it ended up complaining that I needed to put my login/password - which I did. I guess the WAP site is dead or deprecated. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments RE: Question http://osnews.com/thread?366865 http://osnews.com/thread?366865 see below:

http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview

it looks like it's intended to be further customized. while that particular page isn't too specific, i don't think there's any question (as far as intel is concerned) that other companies are going to further tailor moblin.

that being said, acer also just announced that they'd be shipping android-based netbooks later this year.

i find that... errr... strange. i mean, strange that they're shipping two entirely different linux-based OSes. it *could* prove confusing to customers.

i readily acknowledge that i don't really have a full grasp on their "big picture", so maybe their roadmap will become a lot more clear in the coming days/weeks/months/whatever. maybe they just plan on doing android for units sold/subsidized by wireless carriers. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (niemau) Comments RE: Question http://osnews.com/thread?366875 http://osnews.com/thread?366875 Isn't Moblin basically a fedora with some new pieces of software stuck all over it?

Maybe they'll skip some parts of the moblin core, but adding the clutter interface and the apps to say Suse, you'd have kind of a "moblinized" Suse.

Anyway, there's already a Moblin repository for Suse so it'd be a matter of checking what's in there. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ichi) Comments And us poor early adopters http://osnews.com/thread?366877 http://osnews.com/thread?366877 OK, but what about us poor saps who got stuck with Linpus on the AAOne? Will Acer give us an official option to upgrade? Moblin 2.0 Alpha sucked on the Aspire One, by the way. Since I installed Ubuntu NBR I haven't looked back and I actually enjoy using the One once in a while now. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lopisaur) Comments RE: And us poor early adopters http://osnews.com/thread?366888 http://osnews.com/thread?366888 I've got an AOA150-1570 (120GB HDD 1GB RAM), and have run the Moblin beta off a live USB stick. It doesn't do xD cards; it doesn't even recognize hot-plugged SD cards. Maybe it works better on the D-series netbooks. At least Linpus worked with all the hardware. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bosco_bearbank) Comments RE[2]: And us poor early adopters http://osnews.com/thread?366899 http://osnews.com/thread?366899 Good thing this is sill a BETA we're talking about, right? Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AlexandreAM) Comments Comment by Naynay http://osnews.com/thread?366933 http://osnews.com/thread?366933 Is Acer seeking a further discount from Microsoft?

Linux problem has perrenially been lack of hardware support and lack of appropriate niche software.
If you just want an internet, email experience -- we have cell phones for that. Linux will do well there, but not on desktops. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Naynay) Comments RE: And us poor early adopters http://osnews.com/thread?366955 http://osnews.com/thread?366955 Beta works great on the AAO.

Some things would still use some polish (others are just far from being finished, eg. the media player or the default browser), but all the hardware works and it's quite fast. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ichi) Comments RE: Comment by Naynay http://osnews.com/thread?366958 http://osnews.com/thread?366958
If you just want an internet, email experience


And p2p, office, watching videos, listening music, reading ebooks, watching your holiday photos, ssh (-X) to your servers at work...

There aren't that many "niche apps" that would fit a netbook and are lacking on linux.
And when it comes to hardware support you would expect the OEM to get all your hardware running out of the box. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ichi) Comments "Linpus" http://osnews.com/thread?367264 http://osnews.com/thread?367264 Please PLEASE Acer scrap the name!!!! Every time I see it I just see "pus" as in the gross stuff that comes out of wounds..... Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments RE: "Linpus" http://osnews.com/thread?367267 http://osnews.com/thread?367267 Linpus is the name of the company and the distro. Acer has nothing to do with it. I was using Linpus when they first started in Taiwan back in the 1990s. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vinegar Joe) Comments RE[2]: "Linpus" http://osnews.com/thread?367282 http://osnews.com/thread?367282 Ah, I see... well then, I guess I can't complain too much... Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments