http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/ Engadget Comments for Alpha version of Intel's Moblin OS released for brave netbookers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/]]>Jan 30th 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/I realize this is an alpha release but, really... don't waste your time.

CrunchEee is better and way more stable. Finds all the hardware no problem. Plus it looks cooler.]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://openbossa.indt.org/canola2/using.html) for Maemo (http://www.maemo.org)]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
Poor design if you ask me. ]]>Jan 30th 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/(Olestra the fat substitute oil that caused discomfort and rectal leakage)]]>Jan 30th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
I installed gOS on his Dell Latitude 420 this week, but I'm afraid that even gOS may be too complicated for him to handle. The wbar sucks too... :(

I need an interface with big icons, like the ones pictured above. The only programs/icons he really needs are:

1. Firefox
2. VLC
3. Openoffice (Word, Excel, and ppt functionality)
4. Trashcan
5. Shortcuts to his Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That's it. No menu bar, no preferences/options... nothing else is needed beyond those 5 functions. It also needs to work with the Dell Latitude 420 hardware...

Any ideas?]]>Jan 30th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
-jp

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You can even adjust the right/left click desktop menus, or at least one of them.]]>Jan 30th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 31st 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
the idea and the layout of the Intel Moblin OS looks pretty close to MY idea and design of a (possible) Google GoOS suggested/published FIVE months ago on my GoOS blog (and posted on several IT forums and blogs around the world)

http://newgoos.blogspot.com/2008/09/goos-screenshot-on-sony-vaio.html
.]]>Jan 30th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
Both this and your "GoOS" look like minor variations of common linux distros, ]]>Jan 30th 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
the idea and the layout of the Intel Moblin OS looks pretty close to MY idea and design of a (possible) Google GoOS suggested/published FIVE months ago on my GoOS blog (and posted on several IT forums and blogs around the world)

http://newgoos.blogspot.com/2008/09/goos-screenshot-on-sony-vaio.html

.]]>Jan 30th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 31st 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
Because the OS is becoming less important, commoditizing OS' hastens the decline of importance of any one OS and makes the service cloud the important product.

Disrupting the value proposition and virtual monopoly (oligopoly if you wish to give apple more credit than due) currently enjoyed by Microsoft is a good thing for Google, and others that wish to gain from new models of software distribution and content delivery / marketing.]]>Jan 30th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_moblin_2&num=1 And the good news is that there's still stuff they want to do to improve boot time in addition to making the rest of the OS usable.]]>Jan 30th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
This is just a customised distro for a narrow HW set which have always been able to boot fast ... not new the interface might be neat though]]>Jan 30th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/

I need an interface with big icons, like the ones pictured above. The only programs/icons he really needs are:

1. Firefox
2. VLC
3. Openoffice (Word, Excel, and ppt functionality)
4. Trashcan
5. Shortcuts to his Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

These applications can be used on pretty much any of the three major OS's Windows, Linux, even Mac.
If you know someone who is constantly getting infected its time to move them over to a live cd environment with the "Documents" folder linked to the hard drive.]]>Jan 30th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/Jan 30th 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/30/alpha-version-of-intels-moblin-os-released-for-brave-netbookers/
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Of course, people will always be free to download Ubuntu or other Linux distros which do not place restrictions on hardware support (and support much more hardware than fresh installs of Microsoft OS's). ]]>Feb 1st 2009 1:07AM