Moblin 2.0 Released, Intel's Linux For Netbooks 142
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday, Moblin, the joint OS project between Novell and Intel, was released as V2.0 Beta for netbooks with the image available for download. We've talked about Moblin before, but Computer World has an article speculating this is Intel's direct affront to Microsoft's Windows 7 by pointing out that Moblin is designed to optimally use Intel's Atom Processor and smaller screens so popular with netbooks. Windows 7's netbook competition doesn't stop there, as GoodOS's gOS3 Gadgets and Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix are being designed to also take advantage of Intel's Atom, especially from a UI perspective. Ars has a look at Moblin's rich new UI as well. Back in April, Intel said it would support Windows 7 on the Atom later this year, and Intel also says Windows 7 is a good choice for Intel's netbooks, so it doesn't look like they're intentionally burning any bridges between them and Redmond."
Meh. (Score:4, Funny)
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Personally, I'm waiting for Like-Like on my two-wheel transportation device.
I'm just worried it'll eat my shield.
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GLaDOS for GPS will have to do for now [google.com]...
My preecioooous! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, Moblin, not Goblin.
Carry on.
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"A goblin is an imaginary evil, crabby, and mischievous creature described as a grotesquely disfigured or gnome-like phantom, that may range in height from that of a dwarf to that of a human. "
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Re:My preecioooous! (Score:5, Funny)
"...an imaginary evil, crabby, and mischievous creature described as a grotesquely disfigured or gnome-like phantom..."
What is it with you KDE fanbois and your personal attacks? We likes our desktop clean, simple, and brown.
We also likes fisshesss, yes we does.
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Haha, then use KDE and paint your monitor brown.
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I belive there is a GUI tickbox for that in kde4
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That's Gollum, not goblin!
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Duh. (Score:3, Insightful)
that Moblin is designed to optimally use Intel's Atom Processor and smaller screens so popular with netbooks.
I for one, welcome our new optimized-for-the-fucking-device-they-sell-it-with overlords.
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I my self have learned to tell if I am using a quality OS by whether it installs a video editor (whether you want it or not) and has a dedicated system process watch over it and put it back in case you delete it.
Some Linux OS's come with video editors, but unfortunately an admin can still uninstall it. I say Linux has a way to go before being ready for the general user. ;)
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Actually it is quite relevant. It's a comment on the fact that winXP resists being slimmed down, while never the less being MS's best system for the types of devices we are talking about. Which is to say, XP is not optimized for netbooks. Thus the post is relevant both to the GP and to the topic in general.
Only it was expressed as a joke that went over your head.
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winXP resists being slimmed down
Meanwhile, there's GeeXboX [geexbox.org], a whopping 20 Mb livecd, fully functional as a media center.
Another typical Slashdot microsoft bash. (Score:5, Insightful)
How about a summary that describes the new Moblin release (what the post is ostensibly about), rather than focusing on the competition against Win7? How about being FOR something (Moblin in this case), rather than always being against Microsoft?
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but seriously, the one-note, constant Microsoft bashing on this site is getting old.
Re:Another typical Slashdot microsoft bash. (Score:5, Informative)
Yep. I didn't upvote this in the FireHose because it seemed to be just a collection of "Intel makes something".
Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] has a descriptive hands-on preview. Much more useful.
cooperation between Intel and linux?!? (Score:5, Informative)
So, it's more than just that Intel is releasing this. It's Intel, working with the Linux Foundation in an attempt to create a new standard. Isn't this pretty much the ideal case for we've been asking for in open source? A propietary hardware manufacturer working with an open source consortium to create and release open source software. I'll view this collaboration as successful if we start seeing netbooks for sale from major OEMs with this OS installed.
Oh, and some other random stuff I saw that I liked:
-standard X11 window server and can run most linux apps
-the clutter organizational scheme looks intriguing but I'd have to use it for awhile before I could tell you if I liked it or not.
-It's using the gecko HTML rendering engine. What's interesting here is it is not using webkit.
-Lastly, I'd like to see something on how well the wireless network device works and changing networks. The article was a bit short on this aspect. Has anybody used it? How is it?
Re:cooperation between Intel and linux?!? (Score:4, Interesting)
I used the alpha. I am about to install it to my netbook's hard drive; hopefully it provides a way to upgrade. I would presume the answer is yes, but it's pretty rough.
I kind of like XFCE, though. I hope this UI can be disabled easily. The second important note is whether (since this is Fedora-based) the Fedora repos can be enabled without making the computer do bad crashy things.
The other point that the summary neglected to mention is that this project is the first real implementation of Arjan Van De Ven's work on fast booting. He's the guy that made his Eee boot in five seconds. [lwn.net] Moblin can be expected to boot fast, which I think is necessary if we're going to recategorize netbooks from 'underpowered miniature laptop' to 'powerful internet appliance'.
A friend of mine bought a macbook a few months ago because she needed a computer that was extremely simple and user-friendly. Macs are somewhat better in that regard than PCs, but the computer is still pretty incomprehensible to her. This new UI is probably not for the slashdot crowd (anyone who can tell you why it's important that Moblin has a (relatively) standard Xorg server is not really the intended audience), but I think for the common Joe or Jocelyn it's perfect. Especially if you were ever wanting to make a $100 netbook...if the price point is sufficiently low to the point where it's clear you're not buying a Real Computer, and stick this UI on it, you can both set new expectations for what the device is supposed to do and sell a lot of toys to people that don't really have any use for a Real Computer.
Random points:
Webcam support is essential.
The social networking pane needs to be Facebook, not Twitter.
um, End of Line?
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It's easy to spot MS shills. Most of the time they say something like that.
"I'm no fan of MS, but.." or
"I'll play the devil's advocate.." or
"I hate MS as much as the next guy, but.."
-N.S.Sherlock
I hate Linux as much as the next guy (not really) (Score:3, Funny)
"It's easy to spot MS shills."
Of course there are no Linux shills because everyone else here is totally objective and has no particular interest in promoting Linux.
Re:I hate Linux as much as the next guy (not reall (Score:4, Funny)
Shills are paid. Linux is free and also free!
The word you're looking for is "zealots".
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I was going to point that out but you caught it. These are guys that feel jilted by something and they will fight to the death to protect Microsoft, for whatever reason.
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Sure, MS pays people to post on Slashdot. You sign up on the same site where Bill Gates pays you to send emails to test the Internet.
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Right, except you really have no proof of shilling, and stating this is just a intellectually dishonest/lazy way of throwing aside someone's argument without addressing their points.
In fact, nearly every claim of shilling is intellectually dishonest. Either put up some evidence or shut up.
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bash ms all day. long time slashdot lurker here. I hadn't heard about moblin until I read this article (and subsequently the ars technica article w/ screens), so it served its purpose for me.
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How about a summary that describes the new Moblin release (what the post is ostensibly about), rather than focusing on the competition against Win7? How about being FOR something (Moblin in this case), rather than always being against Microsoft?
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but seriously, the one-note, constant Microsoft bashing on this site is getting old.
Well, it's edited pretty much how it's submitted so I'll take full responsibility for this one.
... we really do need to shake that image at least a little bit to be taken seriously.
I guess I'm confused though. I didn't seem to think my summary was pro or anti Microsoft--merely focusing on what else is out there besides Windows 7 for netbooks and pointing out that Intel may have an unfair advantage in this department. If anything, I was hoping for discourse containing thoughtful comments about Intel's upper hand in pointing Novell in the correct direction for optimally using the chips/chipset/gpu in these hardware devices surrounding the Atom process.
When I looked for other stories to reference this one to [google.com], I found 10 or more talking about Windows 7 on the netbook and one talking about Moblin (the on linked in the story). I'm sorry for not continuing the trend of talking about Windows 7 and am disappointed you think my submission was a veiled attempt to attack Microsoft. I am anti-Microsoft but I try to keep that relegated to my posts down here instead of in the summary.
Specifically what did I write that was offensive to you? I also found the title of the Computerworld article to be speculation but the actual text to have level headed statements from Intel (something I tried to reflect in the summary). I guess I failed and I apologize for making Slashdot seem so biased
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I see it less as antagonistic, and more of "Why even mention Microsoft at all?" The summary comes across as an analysis of Moblin as compared to Windows 7 (and a larger overview of how Windows 7 fits in to the future of netbook OSes) instead of just saying,
"Hey, look, Intel released a new OS for netbooks. Take a look."
Which would've been much more to the point.
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One more thing:
"Hey, look, Intel released a new OS for netbooks. Take a look."
Oh that doesn't sound like a Slashvertisement? Someone got modded highly for criticizing the story is just "intel makes something" [slashdot.org] which is not a story.
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If anything, I was hoping for discourse containing thoughtful comments...
This is where things went poopy for ya.
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You must be new here... it's been old for years.
Not even that I'm a fan, but it does get old. If BillG cured cancer tomorrow they'd say he started it.
But really, competition is what this is all about - and Windows 7 is looking pretty decent. Linux needs to compete with that next, why not start getting ahead of it before release time comes around?
Re:Another typical Slashdot microsoft ksh. (Score:5, Insightful)
How about a summary that describes the new Moblin release (what the post is ostensibly about), rather than focusing on the competition against Win7? How about being FOR something (Moblin in this case), rather than always being against Microsoft?
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but seriously, the one-note, constant Microsoft bashing on this site is getting old.
OK, what "Microsoft bashing"?
These products (Moblin, Windows 7, etc.) are in competition with one another in the netbook market. If Moblin achieves some level of success in the netbook market, that reduces the number of netbooks sold with Windows 7. So, the summary states (quite correctly) that this system is a threat to Windows in the netbook market. Any well-packaged system optimized for the platform would be. It's just a fact.
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It's a result of the fact that that is where it is focused and the fact that we want to see competition everywhere.
The bashing is getting old.... (Score:2)
... because the violations and shenanigans of MS keep getting old as well.
Very promising (Score:5, Interesting)
I looked at the screenshots, and this looks really cool. They've put a lot of thought into the GUI, which is not only designed for netbooks and small screens, but touch screens as well.
Moblin is also totally open source, meaning that they won't charge for it and they'll get contributions from the larger open source community.
Unless Microsoft has some secret feature in Windows 7 designed for netbooks that nobody's heard of, then Linux could reclaim the lead in netbook OS's. If somebody ports Moblin to ARM, then Microsoft is in even bigger trouble.
Re:Very promising (Score:4, Interesting)
It's clear they did put a lot of effort in designing the UI. We've got a couple netbooks around the office and I'm tempted to try it out. But from another review, the reviewer noted that it's not packaged with binary drivers. So if you are stuck with certain Wifi cards it may suffer the same pain in the ass that linux generally does: having to track down a damned driver.
That being said, using it with a netbook preloaded with Mobilin where all the hardware is designed to work with linux from the get go....it's worth considering.
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Fortunately netbooks have a slightly less varied range of hardware choices... slightly. What would be very cool of them to do is recruit various enthusiasts who are already tweaking Linux on their own netbooks to tweak moblin loads for specific models. Then you can just grab the image for whatever netbook you have. Sure, there are lots of them out there now... but the major ones could certainly be done -- say like my little ASUS 900a and my Dell Mini9 with EDGE/GPRS card..?
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Currently it's worth avoiding netbooks that have the following hardware:
1. Intel GMA500 aka Poulsbo graphics chipsets. There is no FOSS driver for these. That's because there's a PowerVR core in them. The Fedora Project's Adam Williamson seems [fedoraproject.org] to have found some partial drivers hidden away in a quiet little Ubuntu repository where they were dumped by the Intel team. But success seems partial. So for now avoid anything with GMA500.
2. Broadcom wireless. Again avo
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You obviously meant a different laptop model for one of those because the Mini 10v can't have a lower resolution than the Mini 10v. Which model were you talking about?
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With backing from Intel, I'd be surprised if we didn't see an open source driver (or even a binary closed-source one?) that was available "out of the box" for the Centrino chipset's wireless hardware. Since so many vendors are likely to use such a bundled package, that covers a lot of the spectrum already -- just like if the intel graphics driver is available. (
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FOSS drivers are only available for GMA945, GMA950 chipsets in current notebooks. Anything with the GMA500 may or may not work with some hard-to-get-ahold-of proprietary blobs. See my post abopve. It sucks. Intel have made a good name for themselves in the past with Freeing their drivers but this GMA500 thing is muddying the market and causing uncertainty. In the past I would have felt happy that choosing Intel was going to mean FOSS drivers but now I'd think twice before recommending them or purchasin
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I've been dreaming of a multi-purpose GUI that was suitable for everything from set-top boxes, to phones, to car PCs for a solid decade now. The computing power has always been there, but practically no software or even GUI libraries are written with the assumption that the user might want to interface with the applications b
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You could build a mock-up, a wireframe or html prototype [boxesandarrows.com], and send it with comments to one of several projects open to people submitting ideas for new interactions (Gnome, KDE, Firefox).
You may not get your whole idea implemented, but you can help those guys ad
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How hard would it be to slap Moblin into Android?
Since Android is already running on a netbook [trustedreviews.com], and already runs on ARM, I suspect this is not so hard.
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Unless Microsoft has some secret feature in Windows 7 designed for netbooks that nobody's heard of, then Linux could reclaim the lead in netbook OS's.
Dual-core Atom CPU with NVIDIA ION graphics. 1-2 GB RAM. 160 GB HDD. 9" display or better.
With specs like those you don't need a secret feature.
You only need to say that your Win 7 netbook runs pretty much everything 32 bit Windows. Hardware and software.
Including enough games to keep you occupied for the next five years.
How do you know how good the GUI is..... (Score:2)
... just based on screenshots?
An user interface has to be *used* in order to provide any useful evaluation.
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as for arm? don't count your chickens just yet. linux had a wide base of netbooks in the beginning and it faltered. was the fault that of the netbooks that are still being sold now with winxp or of linux? use a little brain power here and you'll come to a conclusion.
Linux still holds a greater share of the netbook market than it does the traditional desktop market. The fact that even after Windows was available on these netbooks they couldn't secure the same market share tells me that people find Linux more suitable on netbooks than they do on desktops, or windows less so (or both).
my prediction is that arm comes out gang busters and dies quickly into a niche market grave. how many technologies have you've seen with this kind of traction that end up going no where due to lack of software support?
ARM will be a niche market as long as Linux is a niche market. However, if Linux becomes a significant player in netbooks, then so can ARM, because all the same software support will exist
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Linux still holds a greater share of the netbook market than it does the traditional desktop market. The fact that even after Windows was available on these netbooks they couldn't secure the same market share tells me that people find Linux more suitable on netbooks than they do on desktops, or windows less so (or both).
Cite a reference? While I don't doubt that Linux has a greater share on the desktop (which isn't an overly significant value either, unless you wish to add servers as well), how large of a market do netbooks actually consist of? I think I know a total of 1 person who owns one. The rest have notebooks/laptops. Most of which are running Windows.
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That's the opposite to what he said, but you write like you agree with him.
The relative size of the desktop market compared to the netbook one is irrelevant if you're comparing market share in each individual segment.
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Net Applications estimates that Linux is on 1% of the OS market. NDP recently put Linux at about 10% of the netbook market.
The implication being that people prefer Linux over Windows on netbooks more than the prefer Linux over Windows on traditional desktops and laptops.
How, exactly (Score:2)
Do you "take advantage of Intel's Atom ... from a UI perspective"? (and don't confuse "User Interface" with display technology)
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The same way 'NetBurst' was to make your Internet surfing faster....
I still remember when Dilbert was 'Optimized for Intel', basically added a useless java app to slow the page for anyone on a slower CPU. I lost some respect for Adams on that one, though i'm not sure how much he was consulted.
Re:How, exactly (Score:5, Interesting)
Bypass all of the useless Web 2.0 Flash/Java/AJAX pushed by their marketing department:
www.dilbert.com/fast/
Seriously, if there's one website that should know better than to listen to their marketing department, it's Dilbert.com
Download speed (Score:3, Informative)
Or shall I say download slowness:
2.8 of 666 MB (3.8 KB/sec) 2 days, 1 hour remaining.
Not to mention that they mention a VMWare image on a page, link to the download page and no VMWare image can be found there.
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No kidding - and I can't find any mirrors either.
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About 40 minutes later: 2.8 of 666 MB (0.8 KB/sec) 9 days, 11 hours remaining.
Seriously, that's what torrents are for.
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You sure you want to download that?
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Re:Download speed (Score:5, Informative)
But there are torrents... [google.com]
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And they have a plan.
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Thanks.
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Aye, the download had a very slow speed for me, too -- I had to use DownThemAll for Firefox (very cool extension) to get it in a reasonable amount of time (about an hour).
What does the processor... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Maybe they don't want hordes of cheap, 5 year old centrino notebooks with Moblin flooding Ebay? Say, that's not a bad idea...
The Year (Score:2)
One reason why Linux isn't taking off: (Score:2)
Back in April, Intel said it would support Windows 7 on the Atom later this year, and Intel also says Windows 7 is a good choice for Intel's netbooks, so it doesn't look like they're intentionally burning any bridges between them and Redmond."
Unfortunately, nobody ever sold a new idea by sitting on the fence. Until a computer manufacturer starts pro-actively pushing Linux on their hardware as (rightly or wrongly) better than Windows, Linux will not take off.
As long as the line is "do you want Windows or Linux on that, Sir", and the seller gets paid whichever way, Windows will be the easiest sell to the typical punter and before you know it it will be "Linux? Oh, there's not much demand for that, we'd have to do a special order". That's basic
It's the apps. (Score:1, Insightful)
The Linux world is fractured, meaning that a single binary will only work on a small fraction of all Linux distros. Windows is binary compatible across its desktops. OS X is binary compatible across its desktops. Without a unified market,
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The Linux world is fractured, meaning that a single binary will only work on a small fraction of all Linux distros.
But with Linux, the distro usually comes with comes with all the applications you can eat, either on disc or in the online repositories. This is the preferred way for non-techies to get their apps (whereas no true slashdotter would install a binary package when they could roll their own tarball instead).
Punters need to be told this, not "oh, er, well we do Windows as well if you like".
Because most of the popular applications are Free, the application publisher doesn't have to support every distro and ar
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Except that it's not. A binary written for one distro will usually run on another of the same general age. This is, after all, why tools such as "alien" exist. If anything, the Windows market is more fragmented than Linux by virtue of programs being written explicitly for the most current version of Windows i.e. the entire OS must be current.
Linux programs tend to only target current versions of certain libraries, not the entire OS. When was the last time you saw a userland application that demanded a c
Bullshit. (Score:2)
A single binary in Windows ahs a chance in hell to run is transplanted to a different machine, specially if it is a 3rd party application (you have a better chance with binaries that come as part of Windows, but I would be surprised if they don't start DRR signing them in the future).
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Windows 7 is the easier sell because:
The netbook has the horsepower to run pretty much everything 32 bit Windows - including a huge number of older PC games.
If a billion or so users are shopping netbooks - it's a good bet that 900 million or so of them have Windows apps ready to load and run.
Their USB and WiFi devices should work just fine.
The comfort level for the Windows user is Windows - and the netbook becomes just another Windows appliance.
It's easy to visualize the distinctive - marketable - OSX or Wi
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That's unfortunately not quite the way it is. The seller is often paid to sell Windows.
I'm certainly not denying that there may be serious shenanigans afoot (I don't personally have any first-hand evidence, but I do have a lifetime's supply of cynicism) but even if you apply Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org] and assume that everybody is acting in good faith, my point still stands.
If you tell your salesmen that they can offer either heavily advertised, household name Brand X or obscure but arguably technically superior Brand Y then here's a hint: don't bother stocking too many units of Brand Y! Even if Brand X
lpia = x86 basically (Score:2)
Since x86 code runs on lpia, what is there to claim that they "support" ?
Weird (Score:1, Insightful)
Weird.
Here you are, cheering for a company that just got massive fines from the EU. Strange bedfellows.
I hope your new overloads serve you well. But do not count on it. Lessons learned from the other monopoly you so fiercely oppose?
Devil's children have the devil's luck.
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Odd phrase. Intel did some bad stuff to AMD, and they deserved that fine entirely. However, unlike Redmond, Intel makes good products, so we like them.
This is open source software. If you don't like Intel's direction, you can fork their project. However, given that they are paying some very talented people to work on this project, I'm fine with them having control over it.
You're not afraid of anything in particular; there's nothing to be afraid of. You are just bitter and harbouring a grudge against Intel a
netbook opportunity squandered (Score:4, Informative)
When the eee PC came out, Linux had a big opportunity. Unfortunately, Asus completely blew the details of the implementation. They picked a sucky distro, and they did a lousy job on quality control and integration. My wife uses linux on the desktop, and when she saw the eee at Target for $280 she asked me to get her one for her birthday. The model they were selling at Target was out of date and not very good, so I ordered a fancier model on amazon for $400. It came with its wifi misconfigured, and Asus tech support told me they couldn't fix it, and I'd have to return it. This was a few months ago. Yesterday I was making a trip to Fry's, so my wife suggested I just buy one while I was there. Well, Fry's is now selling the eee only with Windows, and Amazon's site also doesn't have the linux version available. AFAICT retailers were just getting too many returns of the linux ones. You can pretty much tell what was going on based on the amazon reviews. Some, like mine, were being shipped misconfigured. In other cases, you had people buying the linux version and not understanding that it wasn't windows. And in still other cases, people were buying them with linux and then trying to install a (presumably illegal) copy of Windows, and failing. (None of this is new, either. All this stuff happened in the past with the Great Quality linux boxes they used to sell at Fry's. The hardware was in fact great quality, but Fry's was getting too many returns, so they stopped carrying them.)
I think the basic problem here is that it's expensive and difficult to do a good job integrating hardware and software for a consumer computer. That's the kind of thing Apple is famous for doing well. Apple puts a lot of money and effort into it, and they charge for it when you buy a mac. I just don't see how anyone is going to do anything like that in the netbook market, which is an ultra-low-margin market. It would have been especially difficult for East Asian manufacturers like Asus and Great Quality, which have a language barrier to deal with. (At one point, Great Quality was shipping their machines with a linux distro that didn't even have an English-language web site.)
Meanwhile, MS can afford to do what it takes to maintain dominance in all sectors of the market. MS doesn't even have to do a good job on netbooks. They just have to avoid doing such a horrible job that it becomes painfully obvious to people who have never used anything but Windows before. It's possible that ARM-based netbooks will change the equation, but I wouldn't be surprised if MS jumps in and starts competing vigorously on ARM, simply to maintain their monopoly.
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ARM doesn't matter. When the chipset, screen and SSD chew more power than the CPU, the CPU is the least of your worries.
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how come this [alwaysinnovating.com] offers
an amazing 10 to 15 hours of battery life for less than 2 pounds.
?
powertop shows a differences of just 3watts between low brighness display and blacked out,
*plus smaller displays use less power anyway (could somebody explain why you cant just use an array of white LEDs to backlight your screen though, its the backlight that uses the power right?)
*the are low power usage wireless chips, but i thought the main reason wireless drains power is because it has to wake up the CPU (on lower power CPUs this is a non-issue)
*graphics chips (where choice of chip
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To answer your question about using white LEDs as a backlight: it costs slightly more. That being said, many notebook screens are now LED backlit. It's a selling point since they are more power efficient and brighter.
More details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlight#LED_backlights [wikipedia.org]
Pixel Qi is supposed to be shipping screens in volume this year. That could be interesting.
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When the eee PC came out, Linux had a big opportunity.
I think the original EEE PC must be the most successful failure ever. People bought them by the shedload (including me) and raved about them, until it became obvious that they were as much practical use as a chocolate teapot. A very, very cute chocolate teapot maybe, and one that hadn't cost enough to get angry about, but not really a lot of use.
The problem wasn't necessarily Linux - its the hardware: the screen was just too small for running desktop software or full-size websites (iPod Touch/iPhone and An
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Spelling error. It's Molblin. (Score:2)
Torrent (Score:1)
Download [linux23.com]
I smell something big brewing....... (Score:3, Insightful)
You call this a release? (Score:1)
Bittorrent link (Score:1)
In case you actually want to try this sometime in the next few days. I suggest getting via bittorrent. It is on the bay:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4904993/moblin-netbook-ux-beta-20090518-004 [thepiratebay.org]
competive netbook OSs? (Score:3, Interesting)
IMO, Intel's efforts would be better spent building drivers for Open Source distros so that more netbooks will run straight out of the box with Open Source installed, and pushing vendors to install conventional desktop UIs rather than "netbook UIs".
Smartphones don't have that problem because people don't have fixed expectations as to what a smartphone desktop ought to look like, it just has to be easy to use and mildly extensible.
That said, I'm running Kubuntu Jaunty 'right out of the box' on my Eee PC900 (and yes, that's a 900MHz computer with the original 1G DRAM) . . . without concern about my warranty because it lives on an SDHC flash card sitting in the internal card reader. Looks great, works well, and it's a standard KDE4.2.2 desktop.
Find out how here [informit.com]. Just Part 1, the tweaks needed for Ubuntu-Intrepid described in Part II are not needed with the new Kubuntu. If you don't have an Eee PC900, make sure Kubuntu-Jaunty has the drivers required to support your netbook or you know where to get them first. Google is your friend.
Oh dear not more Linux (Score:2, Interesting)
I really wanted to have Linux on my Acer Aspire One but the struggle was just too much. I spent days then gave up with Linpus, then tried again unsuccessfully with eeebuntu. It's now got Windows 7 and runs fine.
Is it too much to want to close the lid on a netbook and then everything to come back again when I open it? And to get a bluetooth 3G modem connection without huge messing about?
A little late but here goes (Score:2)
OK I read the news (?) here and downloaded the image, then tried it in VirtualBox and on a Dell Vostro 1500 Centrino/Core 2 Duo system. It's not exactly a netbook but it's intel through and through down to the WiFi card. It loaded in VirtualBox but didn't know what to do with the video exactly, so it was slow and working but only 800x600 and the right-hand icons were thus inaccessible — widescreen is mandatory. On the Vostro everything was great except, unfortunately, networking; trying to bring up ne
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2)
Sho blin?
Re: (Score:2)
I think you installed the wrong one. Netbook Remix is almost the exact opposite of a fancy UI, instead opting for a few large application icons and easy navigation.
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Let me guess, your Mac Quadra running OS8 can outperform it, while doing a simple file copy/paste ?
Re:Background (Score:4, Funny)
I thought that was Windows 7.
When I hit Ctr-Alt-Del his eyes just flash.