Linked by Henry on Thu 17th Sep 2009 18:51 UTC
The first netbook preinstalled with Moblin v2 for Netbooks will launch next week, possibly at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, or else the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon in Portland. Then, within the next couple of weeks, the Moblin Project will release the first stable release of the Moblin v2 Linux distribution, which began beta testing in May. Will Linux prove a viable alternative to Windows 7 on the low-powered, low-cost computing devices released for this holiday season? We should know pretty soon.
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RE: I like Moblin's concept, but...
by vivainio on Fri 18th Sep 2009 10:12
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I like Moblin's concept, but... I don't like the fact that it doesn't support the original (non-atom) series of netbooks.
It's an Intel product, so obviously they wanted to showcase what they can do with their compiler and SSE3.
Luckily, source is available, so it's up to the community to build it without SSE3 requirement. Hopefully the ones who do that will still use intel's compiler instead of gcc though...
RE[2]: I like Moblin's concept, but...
by HangLoose on Fri 18th Sep 2009 17:42
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2008-02-05
I like Moblin's concept, but... I don't like the fact that it doesn't support the original (non-atom) series of netbooks.
This sucks for the early adopters (and no, I'm _not_ going to buy a new netbook just in order to run Moblin; Mint will do)