Moblin 2.0 Being Released At Intel IDF

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Moblin 2.0 Being Released At Intel IDF

At OSCON 2008, Linux on mobile devices has been an extremely hot topic. This morning Intel's Dirk Hohndel had keynoted about their Atom-based mobile devices and netbooks and this afternoon he had a smaller session where he talked in greater detail about Moblin and what will be known as Moblin 2.0. Moblin 1.0 was released a year ago as a place for the Linux and open-source communities to collaborate over Linux on mobile devices...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjYxMw

[Nathan DBB]

Two reasons cited for moving to Fedora, but the press is only repeating one.

One was that Fedora -- made by a for-profit company -- has a more corporate-friendly package manager.

Two is that Intel has been disappointed that they have not had more community development and support for Moblin 1.0. Somehow, Intel believed that Ubuntu could get a bunch of Linux programmers to work for free. They would make programs hoping to someday have hardware to run the programs on.

The N770-N810 have had many applications and a lot of community interest. They also had a sub-500 (USD) device from day one. Intel did not deliver.

This is INTEL's fault, not Ubuntu's. INTEL has been unable to get partners to put any reasonable number of devices on the market. Only a couple of MID's have come out, and they have been expensive and running Microsoft Windows. They are so expensive that a Microsoft Windows tax is a small slice of the price.

Switching distributions and package formats will only feed the idea that Linux is expensive to develop on due to platform instability.

[clint999]

Two reasons cited for moving to Fedora, but the press is only repeating one.

One was that Fedora -- made by a for-profit company -- has a more corporate-friendly package manager.

Two is that Intel has been disappointed that they have not had more community development and support for Moblin 1.0. Somehow, Intel believed that Ubuntu could get a bunch of Linux programmers to work for free. They would make programs hoping to someday have hardware to run the programs on.

The N770-N810 have had many applications and a lot of community interest. They also had a sub-500 (USD) device from day one. Intel did not deliver.

This is INTEL's fault, not Ubuntu's. INTEL has been unable to get partners to put any reasonable number of devices on the market. Only a couple of MID's have come out, and they have been expensive and running Microsoft Windows. They are so expensive that a Microsoft Windows tax is a small slice of the price.

Switching distributions and package formats will only feed the idea that Linux is expensive to develop on due to platform instability.