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Bernard is offline Bernard
2011-09-20 , 15:58
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Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
Moblin actually did have a rep. at the time (for some form-factors) when it comes to Linux.
I recall several extensive writes-up from sites like phoronix that felt it stood-out from anything else around at the time.
This was before the tie-up....
It did have some good stuff to bring to the table, I can't recall it all now, pretty sure power management was part of it.
Yes, the articles (also on arstechnica, if i'm not mistaken), were mostly that the Netbook Moblin/MeeGo booted really quickly and performance was very good (optimized for atom). A lot of "quickboot" trick were later also adopted in most other linux distributions.
But I always thought the reviewers were way to easy on the OS, and doubt they actually used it for a long period of time.
I tried Moblin on my netbook even before any partnership with Nokia was announced, and continued to try the updates (and MeeGo Netbook UX) since. It never lasted long on my netbook, and I quickly reverted back to Linux Mint.
Moblin/MeeGo netbook UX was/is buggy, incompatible and incomplete and not suitable for any end user. imho.

Maemo was always based on relatively old debian components (because originally it was one of the very few distros to support ARM), so I could understand that they wanted a different solution.
 

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