First Moblin V2 Netbook Launches 70
nerdyH writes "The first netbook preinstalled with Moblin v2 for Netbooks will launch next week, possibly at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 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."
Re:Once again a geeky name sinks good product (Score:5, Informative)
Re:NOT READY, DO NOT WANT (Score:3, Informative)
I own a 701 too and it is indeed plenty fast. The thing is, that CPU isn't two years old as you claim. It's from 2001 [wikipedia.org]. So, two years ago, it was already 6 years old. It is also Asus who chose the chip and not Intel.
Anyway, that's not my point. I don't think "mlund" was criticizing anything about the CPU. He was most certainly talking about the screen size and only that. As an 701 owner, I must agree with him: it's really too small and pretty much all other netbooks came with 1024x600 resolution which at least is close to 1024x768 form days yonder. 800x480 is really limited. It is usable with a Window Manager like LXDE [lxde.org] but you need to tweak applications left and right (Less "To" fields in the Thunderbird compose window, for example). Personally, I think that the Asus 900 series would have been the better choice for me, but I just couldn't wait and had to have my toy.
(I still use my Asus EEE 701 pretty much everyday.... Runs Debian just fine... Application statup times are a bit high, but I guess that's the SSD)