Eee PCs rumored to ship with Moblin in October, Chrome OS on the horizon
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted August 7th 2009 11:04AM
posted August 7th 2009 11:04AM
How about a minor spy story to kick-start your weekend? According to our man Sascha at netbooknews.de, a "safe source" who shall remain nameless but who most certainly has ties to Stasi (or, at the very least, owns a trench coat) has divulged some choice nuggets: The first Eee PC pre-installed with the open source OS will hit the market in October, and the company is currently considering the possibility of making this an option for all its notebooks at some point in the near future. And if that weren't enough to stoke your dreams of an Operating System Renaissance, the company is also reportedly working "closely together" with Google to deploy the Chrome OS on its machines at some point in the not-too-distant future. All rumors and innuendo, sure, but interesting -- and, as we've seen the company play with Moblin in the past, certainly not a shocker. As always, we'll keep our ears to the ground, and we'll keep you posted.
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..then drink a soda.
I would just wipe it out and install windows 7 anywayz.
as much as moblin is a cool piece of kit, I can't see myself buying into the platform as there won't be any apps for it.
As it is, high profile OSs like Ubuntu and Android are struggling to get apps ported, developed there compared to say iPhone. I have previoulsy bought into the hype of the N800 and have been pretty much stuck with the stock apps bar one or two real gems, but that's it.
I think the market is fragmented enough as it is. There aren't enough developer for all those different platforms.
So yay for netbooks, but Asus shoudl really port over Android et Ubuntu netbook, and not Moblin/maemo etc.
Love the picture of good ol' Spy vs. Spy.
Good times... *sigh*
Call me when Chrome OS is available on netbooks w/ built-in 4G/LTE, free with 2 yr subscription.
moblin runs awesome
I'm quite interested to see how Moblin evolves, but what I really want is to be able to use a smartbook/netbook like a smartphone with a bigger display & keyboard (e.g. cell phone calls, SMS/MMS, LBS, web surfing, etc.). Until oFono is ready for Moblin, that leaves Android as the best option. Hopefully, ChromeOS will ultimately support Android's smartphone functionality.
A smartphone with a bigger screen is just a laptop with skype.
Maybe people want their netbooks to actually, you know, run the correct speed... instead of the 51% performance "tax" of running Aero and Windows 7's other BS services that run fine on desktop hardware but shitty on netbooks.
Maybe, just maybe, some people aren't fooled by Windows 7's attempts to appear to be anything other than Vista with a new taskbar.
you mean those square things with letters on them you push with your fingers? yeah. apple invented those...
/sarcasm
please go lay on a busy highway.
*sigh* even though it said [replying to The "i"] my comment goes on it's own. god this site's comment system sucks. I guess even though this says [replying to FNG] it may or may not go there...
No, superstar The "i" seems to have managed it so that no one can ever reply to his comments, ever, which kinda says it all really...
@Elranzer. I have been running Win7 RC1 32 bit on my Eeepc since release day and it with all features on, and nothing crippled, it runs flawlessly on 2GB ram. Task manager is looking good.
1) will this include the T91 and T101?
2) Why not Ubuntu!? I'd love to see EeeBuntu on the T91 and/or T101...
its free. you can install it yourself lol
Right. Except that Eeebuntu and Ubuntu (as far as I know) don't currently have decent support for rotating screens, and Ubuntu dropped their UMPC project, which had support for touch screens. What's the point in running a non-tablet-friendly OS on a tablet?
Sure, Eeebuntu and Ubuntu are free. Big deal. If they don't properly support the tablet hardware, then that's a useless statement for you to make.
i was not aware about the lack of touchscreen support. thats a fair point. thanks for the info :-)
Does EeeBuntu support touch screen?
1. sony used the chiclet first
2. asus make apple hardware
3. stfu
@Elranzer. you're nothing but a FUD spreader.
Win7 runs just as good, or better, than XP on my Aspire One. The AA1 could barely handle Vista once Firefox or Chrome was open with a few tabs. Only Mac Cultists and Linux Gurus who haven't actually tried it would say the kind of bulls#it you're spreading.
I've tried Moblin and Ubuntu Netbook Remix (oh and FreeBSD) on the AA1, and NONE of them are as convenient as having Windows 7 on it (though I still have Moblin around, for quick booting minimal tasks, it's not bad).
If ASUS is gonna start serving up Moblin and Chrome OS, their retailers better get ready for the high return rate.
I don't give a damn what other people are using. I could live in a planet where everybody is using Windows Vista, except for me, Linus and RMS (each one using a totally different GNU/Linux distro).
All I ask for is for companies to allow me to buy the computer without paying for a windows license. When I'm forced to do this I just throw it in the trashcan, it's just free money for uncle Bill to fight malaria or whatever. Yeah, ship Xandros, Suse, FreeDOS, whatever, I'll just format it also, and install my own Debian. Even if it came with Debian installed, I would like to install it again myself.
I can't believe there are Windows users that get all nervous when a company announces to ship a machine with something other than Windows. Aren't you satisfied to already control the other 99,9999% of the computers market? Oh you think they are wrong, they will fail, they'll go bankrupt? So what, let us follow the path to ruin IN SILENCE please.
People can be different from yourself!!! Grow up.
did you just make out Bill Gates as a bad person for using his money to rid the world of Malaria? wow
seriously tho, i dont mind if manufacturers give people the option to get a computer with Linux on it. even tho i rarely use Linux because I do a lot of CAD work, i still appreciate the OS for what it is and I think people would be surprised at how easy some of the major distros like Ubuntu can be.
Which Eee PC model is that? That one looks pretty good.
It's the eeemacbook