Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops

superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

What the fuck is a moblin?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not messing around with digg or redditt or spankwire or whatever your affiliate links are to find out. Someone needs to just tell me.

Re:nice one kdawson

[Amouth]

yes i too agree we should kill the social networks - and if it includes an app for it.. then by all means give it to the masses..

Moblin and Ubuntu Netbook Remix

[Taxman415a]

So after reading both Wikipedia pages for Moblin [wikipedia.org] and Ubuntu Netbook Remix [wikipedia.org] I can't really tell what the difference is. Are they just two different attempts at the same thing? As I recall Netbook remix came first, then Moblin came out, but that may just be what I recall being anounced.

Either way it certainly is a big deal that Intel is supporting the development of a Microsoft competitor. Mobile computing is an area where Microsoft is very weak. The big problem with Moblin is that it is focused on Atom and the Atom requires an order of magnitude more power than current ARM solutions. It's no wonder that Intel based MID's haven't been able to come up with any decent battery life, the chip plus the chipset and graphics drawing multiple tens of watts is simply never going to be compelling for a mobile device. But when you can put in something that uses milliwatts, then it becomes possible. Of course, it's no surprise that Intel doesn't want to help the competition, but not that Moblin is at the Linux foundation, they really should seriously look at an ARM port.