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Intel Shows Off Moblin, Their Own Netbook-Optimized Linux OS [NetBooks]
Intel Shows Off Moblin, Their Own Netbook-Optimized Linux OS [NetBooks]
We're hearing more and more about specific netbook-optimized operating systems , and Intel is joining in the game with an alpha release of Moblin , their netbook Linux OS optimized for Atom. Moblin is based largely on Fedora, and it's still a work in progress, but its main goal is to optimize ...
Announcing Moblin V2 Core Alpha Release
moblin.org — Moblin v2 Core Alpha Release Notes The Moblin Project is happy to make the Moblin Core Alpha... for Netbooks available for testing and taking the bits out for a ride. Moblin is a community open source project, initially targeting Intel(r) Atom(tm) ... (more) Announcing Moblin V2 Core Alpha Release
Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks
Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks
venturebeat.com — As netbook sales continue to pick up in a struggling world economy, Intel, which makes the Atom... processor found in many of those netbooks, is looking towards the future of the market. Specifically, it’s stepping up its efforts to provide the ... (more) Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks
Intel to detail eight-core Xeon processor
macworld.com — by Sumner Lemon , IDG News Service Intel plans to detail an eight-core Xeon processor at the... International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next month, offering an early look at what appears to be the company's first eight-core chip. ... (more) Intel to detail eight-core Xeon processor
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Intel’s new OS for netbooks
CrunchGear — ... has realized that netbooks are here to stay because they’ve just taken the wraps off their own flavor of Linux optimized for the Atom processor: Moblin. Currently available as an alpha release, Moblin is built off of the GNOME Mobile platform and will utilize Intel’s own Clutter and GUPnP open source technologies. This is pretty exciting news since we just found out about another netbook-specific operating system: Jolicloud. [Moblin via Gizmodo]

Intel Promises Two-Second Boot Times With Their Moblin Netbook Linux OS [NetBooks]
Gizmodo — ... We've already seen promising early builds of Moblin, their open-source project to create an Atom-optimized OS for netbooks on the platform. But speaking at a Linux summit in San Francisco recently, Intel's Imhad Sousou spelled out plans to make a two-second boot a reality. ...

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