One factor behind the *development* of this particular Linux distro by Intel: it would seem that their marketing strategy consists of supplying it with only Intel drivers, and then to use their commanding share of the netbook market to further leverage the exclusive use of Intel chipsets (on netbooks and maybe notebooks and desktops) if the use of *Moblin* Linux catches on. Perhaps they will offer a discount on chip components to manufacturers who agree to install Moblin on a certain percentage of their products?
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).
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One factor behind the *development* of this particular Linux distro by Intel: it would seem that their marketing strategy consists of supplying it with only Intel drivers, and then to use their commanding share of the netbook market to further leverage the exclusive use of Intel chipsets (on netbooks and maybe notebooks and desktops) if the use of *Moblin* Linux catches on. Perhaps they will offer a discount on chip components to manufacturers who agree to install Moblin on a certain percentage of their products?
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).