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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RE[2]: Interesting interface
by AlexandreAM on Mon 9th Nov 2009 02:13
in reply to "RE: Interesting interface"
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Thanks for the info! I have a core2duo GMA965 notebook and I'll give it a try with Moblin to see how it fares.
I wonder if it'll really take less battery than a regular linux distro. It would make it a good candidate for when running solely on battery power for longer times, to read articles and, perhaps with some modification, have a text editor to program in a very very simple environment (text editor + compiler)
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The entire user interface in Moblin is accelerated via OpenGL. Getting it to run in a VM may not provide you with a solid impression of the OS. Moblin requires SSE3 and an Intel graphics chipset (except for GMA 500), so you can run it on quite a variety of hardware by putting the image onto a 1GB+ USB drive and booting from that. I have both a Toshiba netbook and an IBM Thinkpad, and it works on both. The Thinkpad has a Core2 Duo and GMA965, the Toshiba an Atom and GMA945. The interface is quite to my liking - i prefer it on my Thinkpad to Windows 7.