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Rather interestingly, the UI seems to be designed for keyboard/mouse, or stylus (or then the screen needs to be very large for finger use). Can somebody smarter describe the intended target devices that Moblin is for? Are there some hardware examples already available?
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2009-05-20
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Looks like Moblin is back with a vengeance. This is the only netbook style UI that has even remotely tempted me to actually buy a netbook.
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It's always nice to have an alternative, isn't it? 
It will, of course, largely depend on the hardware the thing runs on (battery life especially, but also size and weight). But it could be tempting because it's more the desktop-like full-power experience that I look for in mobile devices, while Maemo seems to aim more for the phone-like, casual use cases (in terms of marketing and UI, not in terms of what the OS is capable of).
It will, of course, largely depend on the hardware the thing runs on (battery life especially, but also size and weight). But it could be tempting because it's more the desktop-like full-power experience that I look for in mobile devices, while Maemo seems to aim more for the phone-like, casual use cases (in terms of marketing and UI, not in terms of what the OS is capable of).
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2009-05-20
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Originally Posted by ragnar
Netbooks, netbooks, netbooks (pick any of the several million different models available).
Rather interestingly, the UI seems to be designed for keyboard/mouse, or stylus (or then the screen needs to be very large for finger use). Can somebody smarter describe the intended target devices that Moblin is for? Are there some hardware examples already available?
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2009-05-20
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Meh, if I had Moblin, I'd likely want it on a MID sorta like the NITs, not a netbook.
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2009-05-20
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Originally Posted by ragnar
This version of Moblin is for netbooks (not smaller screen MIDs). It should run on plenty of different atom-based netbooks.
Rather interestingly, the UI seems to be designed for keyboard/mouse, or stylus (or then the screen needs to be very large for finger use). Can somebody smarter describe the intended target devices that Moblin is for? Are there some hardware examples already available?
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2009-05-20
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btw, do they still use hildon? i found some references to it on pages about moblin published years ago, but the only current system overview i found doesn't mention it specifically.
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2009-05-20
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related article:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/r...x-platform.ars
moblin looks very much alive to me.
(sorry, can't answer the hildon question.)
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/r...x-platform.ars
moblin looks very much alive to me.
(sorry, can't answer the hildon question.)
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