Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Nov 2009 23:45 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"The Moblin project steering committee today announces the project release of Moblin v2.1 for Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops. This project release includes the broadest feature additions, customer requested improvements, and overall polish to date. With this community release you will see significant feature additions and improvements including enhanced browser functionality and plug-in support, UI enhancements, support for 3G data connections, Bluetooth device management, input method support for localized languages, integrated application installer for the Moblin Garage, performance and stability improvements, and additional overall help and documentation."
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Member since:2007-03-06
OK, so I've installed it on my Aspireone:
-Boots fast (same as 2.0).
-Runs fast (same as 2.0).
-The UI for the package manager looks better, but there's almost no software available.
-The default browser seems to be more usable now.
-How the hell am I supposed to connect to a wired network without a DHCP server? ifconfig? Come on.
-Still no sane way to install codecs. At least now I get a suggestion: "try to download gstreamer codecs from internet"... yeah sure, if only it was that easy.
So summing up: looks great and runs great, but it's still pretty much useless.
Edited 2009-11-08 12:42 UTC
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2007-03-06
Downloading.
2.0 was interesting, but simple stuff like installing support for different video codecs was a PITA. If that's been solved in this release I might stick with it for a while.