Submitted by El Reg reports: While Intel’s Moblin 2.0 platform has been delayed from November 2008 to the first half of 2009, it looks like its arrival will provide quite the boost to the netbook scene. “Start-up Good OS has announced a relationship with MiTAC International to deliver its gOS Gadgets Linux operating system on a netbook based on Intel’s Moblin 2.0. David Liu, founder and chief executive of gOS, told The Reg the machine planned with MiTAC would be among the first to be released on the as-yet unfinished Moblin 2.0. Ahead of completion, vendors have been working with Moblin 1.0 and so-called ‘Moblin optimizations’. These are portions of the Moblin spec that have been picked up and incorporated into either hardware or software design. Xandros and Asus have, for example, added changes to their systems from Moblin that provide a 25 per cent improvement in battery life. Liu said Moblin was ‘getting more and more ready for mainstream use’ with features such as an extra-fast boot time of five seconds.”
Moblin has potential, but i don’t know how much of it is actually used by vendors (needs a certification program perhaps?). Will be interesting to see how different Moblin based platforms with different adherence levels to the architecture actually performs on real world scenarios.
I think you’re a bit confused. I hadn’t heard of Moblin until recently (actually, until I discovered this article), but as I understand things:
1) Moblin is standard open-source software, which means any vendor can use as much of the code as they want without “certifying” themselves. If certification were to be used for anything, it would be the use of the name, but that would also be pointless since the name is not being marketed towards consumers.
2) I’m also not sure what you mean by “different adherence to the Moblin platform”. Moblin is a single platform that is independent of the underlying Linux layer.
http://moblin.org/documentation/architecture-overview
If you use it, it adheres. Unless you’re talking about forking…
Edited 2008-10-28 00:11 UTC