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The Dawn of the Age of Moblin!

By David Stewart (Intel) (138 posts) on May 19, 2009 at 8:43 pm

The public beta of Moblin v2 is here!

If you don't know about Moblin, read Imad's blog for a complete introduction to the operating system, including a lot of good links. In fact, I'm typing this from my Asus eeePC 901 running Moblin.

Some of my favorite features:

• Social media integration - I think Moblin will become famous as the first OS to really be designed with the Internet designed in from the ground up. And the way people use the Internet these days is with social media apps like Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Moblin beta has Twitter and Last.fm built in now, will have more later. The very desktop is built in with social media and can be extensible to new internet services.
• Fast boot - the boot time on my flash-based netbook is fantastic, beats anything out there.
• Animated user experience - I've played with a lot of animated desktops like compiz and the like. This one beats all.

This has been a great story for some of the legendary open source experts at Intel. I'm proud of the accomplishments so far, and more to come.

It is a beta, so set expectations accordingly that we need the community to test it and file bugs and help us to make it better.

Categories: Mobility, Open Source, Social Media & Virtual Worlds

Comments (3)

May 20, 2009 12:41 AM PDT Tim Foster

Are there plans for an OpenSolaris port of the UI or is this a Linux-only project? I'm running an early version of OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my eeepc 701 and it works just great (compiz included) I needed to tweak the desktop a bit to make best use of the 7" display, but if that's already built into the Moblin UI, it'd be excellent to give that a go with OpenSolaris behind the scenes.

May 20, 2009 9:22 AM PDT David Stewart (Intel) Total Points: 9,435 Status Points: 9,435 Black Belt

I think I noticed that the clutter package has gone back in a recent build of OpenSolaris, so it seems possible. You wouldn't get fast boot without going with Linux, but it might not be a big project to port the user experience. Hey, it's all open source, man...

May 20, 2009 9:30 AM PDT pier-olivier p.c.

I'll give it a go as soon as I have some spare time. My main concern is about using pki/certificate on enterprise wpa, I hope it's really easy to setup.

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