Novell teams up with Intel to bring Moblin to Netbooks

Posted by sakgarg on May 9, 2009 5:40 AM EDT
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Android, Ubuntu, LiMo and Moblin have been battling it out in the Open Source mobile Operating system space for Mobile phones and Netbooks. Now, Novell has teamed up with Intel to push Moblin, instead of a version of OpenSuSE.

Novell and Intel were joining forces to encourage OEMs and ODMs to use the Linux-based Moblin platform on netbooks and small devices...With the other tools and benefits that Moblin offers OEMs and developers, it's really a rather smart approach that could potentially yield a better netbook experience (for developers and consumers), maximize development resources, and produce quality software in minimal time. I don't think Novell is eschewing SUSE, but in its current form, it's not as suited for netbooks as it is systems like the HP ProBooks. Paired with Moblin's netbook-centric bent and coming from a desktop/server market (rather than a true mobile device background), bringing a SUSE/Moblin system to netbooks has as much potential (if not more) for success as a Android adaptation does.

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