Much to my youngest son’s chagrin, I wiped out the Windows operating system on my Classmate and installed Moblin this morning.
Moblin , for anyone who may not be familiar with the project, began with Intel’s community-driven efforts to create a Linux-based operating system for netbooks, MIDs, and other light devices. It’s now been taken over by the Linux Foundation, but they just released the beta version of Moblin 2.0. Based on Fedora, Moblin has been receiving a lot of very favorable reviews and really does have some very impressive features. Most importantly, it’s fast and responsive on minimal hardware and actually has a user interface that lends itself to the tasks best-suited to netbooks. I won’t go into the details as it’s been extensively reviewed elsewhere; suffice to say, the interface is very cool if you aren’t looking for something that looks like Windows.
Full Story: Moblin on the Classmate - ZDNet
Moblin , for anyone who may not be familiar with the project, began with Intel’s community-driven efforts to create a Linux-based operating system for netbooks, MIDs, and other light devices. It’s now been taken over by the Linux Foundation, but they just released the beta version of Moblin 2.0. Based on Fedora, Moblin has been receiving a lot of very favorable reviews and really does have some very impressive features. Most importantly, it’s fast and responsive on minimal hardware and actually has a user interface that lends itself to the tasks best-suited to netbooks. I won’t go into the details as it’s been extensively reviewed elsewhere; suffice to say, the interface is very cool if you aren’t looking for something that looks like Windows.
Full Story: Moblin on the Classmate - ZDNet
