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The other ‘new’ Linux: Moblin

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Moblin 2.1 stands midway between a desktop operating
system and a mobile device OS. All that really happened today is
that Intel and friends gave us a look at Moblin 2.1 running on
mobile devices.

“From that, I can see a few highlights. First, as presented
today, it appears that they intend for it to contend more with
Apple’s iPod Touch, Microsoft’s Zune HD, and the Google
Android-powered Archos 5, then Windows 7 or the desktop Linuxes
like Fedora and openSUSE.”

Complete
Story

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