Fedora to Get Mini’ed with Moblin

I commonly write about Ubuntu-based distros for the netbook but it looks like the Fedora team’s doing something about the growing netbook community as well. As I have said before, Moblin looks like an awesome project that showcases a user interface that lets netbook users maximize its features and screen space. Check out which hardware Fedora Moblin will support. This project could lead to Fedora on many different devices, targetting netbooks and mobile internet devices and the like. Popular netbooks like Acer’s Aspire One, Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 and Asus’ EEE PC are currently the devices involved in the project.  Although,  as said earlier, that’s just the beginning.  They’d like to be inclusive of other devices.

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Moblin was a project completed by the Linux Foundation. And Novell has placed tweaks in it already. And I really think that it’s one heck of an interesting project considering what I’ve seen from the user interface a couple of months ago. Here’s an overview of the architecture of Moblin. This reminds me: I haven’t tested Moblin v2 UX yet! So if you’re curious about Moblin, you could take it for a test drive. Those who are after Fedora Mini which has elements of Moblin, you could participate in the Alpha testing of Fedora Mini. Hardware reports would be definitely welcome on their wiki so when you do give it a try, don’t forget to update the wiki page. Access the Fedora Mini Hardware wiki page here. I suppose that those who are more comfortable with Fedora will at least have the chance for Moblin without having to suddenly switch to it entirely.

For those who’d be testing it, I hope to read your feedback soon on this blog! : )  It might still be a bit rough but you could help the community by testing this on your own computers.   The development team would need information from you.