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Moblin Arrives in Beta 2.0 Version, Works With Netbooks

Moblin, the open source mobile platform launched by Intel and now overseen by The Linux Foundation, is out in a beta version 2.0. The platform has been gaining a lot of momentum, with Acer announcing that it will put it on a broad range of laptops, netbooks and PCs, Moblin mediaphone devices in the works, in-car infotainment systems based on it, and more. According to a blog post from Moblin.org, the beta version is aimed at netbooks and nettops for developer testing.


Intel and Nokia Strike Mobile Partnership, Including Open Source

Intel is getting very serious about mobile phones and platforms, as evidenced by a far-reaching partnership with Nokia, announced today. The partnership comes on the heels of Intel's acquisition of Wind River Systems, which is a big player in the embedded Linux, and embedded mobile technology space. As part of the new partnership, Intel and Nokia announced their intent to collaborate on numerous open source software projects, and Intel will license Nokia's HSPA-capable 3G modem intellectual property for upcoming mobile products. The goal is to define a new mobile platform beyond today's smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services, according to Intel's announcement.


A Linux-Based Dashboard Readout Worthy of the Jetsons

LinuxDevices has a very interesting post up about a newly announced (PDF) telematics instrument cluster prototype from Yazaki North America. Aimed at automotive navigation systems from various manufacturers, and based on embedded Linux, it was created in collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor. It's intended to allow manufacturers and drivers multiple types of customized views of information, ranging from maps to data on driver and vehicle performance. It looks quite flexible, and racy too.


On Desktop Linux, the Mac, and Market Share

There is an old joke, popular among venture capitalists, that goes like this: Two guys are walking in the wilderness, when they spot a huge bear speeding toward them, gnashing its teeth. One of the guys pulls a pair of running shoes out of his backpack and starts putting them on.

? What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear, says the other guy.

I don't need to outrun the bear, comes the answer. I just need to outrun you.

That joke is about knowing precisely who the competition is. That's why I thought of it when I read Matt Asay's post about Mark Shuttleworth identifying the Mac OS, and not Windows, as the desktop operating system to beat. Shuttleworth made comments to that effect in this Datamation interview, and I agree with him.



On Desktop Linux, the Mac, and Market Share

There is an old joke, popular among venture capitalists, that goes like this: Two guys are walking in the wilderness, when they spot a huge bear speeding toward them, gnashing its teeth. One of the guys pulls a pair of running shoes out of his backpack and starts putting them on.

? What are you doing? You can't outrun a bear, says the other guy.

I don't need to outrun the bear, comes the answer. I just need to outrun you.

That joke is about knowing precisely who the competition is. That's why I thought of it when I read Matt Asay's post from last year about Mark Shuttleworth identifying the Mac OS, and not Windows, as the desktop operating system to beat. Shuttleworth made comments to that effect in this Datamation interview, and I agree with him. It's right now, though, that we are really seeing the Linux desktop realize its potential, with the Mac OS still setting a good pace in the race.



A Moblin Mediaphone Device

Yesterday we covered some of the promise that the Moblin mobile platform has on netbooks. As JKOnTheRun notes today, Intel is also focused on it and its Atom chips in the smartphone arena. You can find video of Inventec's Mediaphone device built on Moblin and running the Atom platform here. The Inventec device looks like a cross between a smartphone and a small tablet PC. With the Linux Foundation now functioning as the steward of Moblin, and with it showing up on multiple types of devices, it's looking like Moblin will move well beyond the automotive applications that it was aimed at to begin with. UPDATE: Acer has announced plans to put Moblin on all of its products, from netbooks, to laptops, to PCs.?


Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Android and Linux Netbook Prospects

While some reports out of the CompuTex show going on in Taiwan this week point to major netbook manufacturers shifting toward favoring Windows exclusively, there are encouraging signs for Linux-based netbooks cropping up too. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is reporting that Canonical will be demonstrating a Moblin version of the UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix), and will develop a UNR based on the full release of Moblin 2. There are already some netbooks shipping with UNR loaded. Meanwhile, Android (which is Linux-based) is making headway on netbooks, and could run on netbooks with various flavors of CPUs.