TooMuchGreen

Having previously dabbled with Moblin on my Dell Mini 9 I was obviously most interested in the Ubuntu “developer” version (as recently offered up for purchase on the 10v’s) so I pulled it down from the Dev Wiki and installed it.

I used Ubuntu’s quick and easy usb-imagewriter to create the key and as you would expect with it being a tailored Dell netbook release it dropped onto the Mini 9 with no problems at all, everything worked including the Wi-Fi (which wasn’t seen during previous dabbles with the standard and less together Karmic-Moblin-Remix)  Read more... (estimated reading time 1:45 mins)

Moblin is a Linux environment stack initially developed by Intel for MID’s (Mobile Internet Devices), it’s now taking to Netbooks and being adopted accordingly by major players such as Ubuntu & Suse for it’s mid-ground Web OS re-style. Google’s Android and Windows 7 are already claiming the netbook net-top and even pre-release they obviously have a head start, however if like me you’ve had a play with various flavours of Moblin you’ll probably agree it’s rather stylish and resultantly intriguing to say the least.  Read more... (estimated reading time 2:22 mins)