Intel hasn’t hasn’t really taken a shine to the idea of netbooks, since the low price point of the Atom processor they use doesn’t allow for very high profit margins. Well, it looks like Intel 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. At the very least, you probably won’t be seeing a lot of XP around soon.
Way to go, Xfce!!!! http://www.xfce.org
“At the very least, you probably won’t be seeing a lot of XP around soon.”
That I’d disagree with, at least until Windows 7 comes out of beta. XP is a very solid OS, and it has a LOT of support right now. Microsoft tried to get everybody to upgrade to Vista, and everybody still uses XP. It’s not going away anytime soon, let alone to the netbook realm. The only thing that can bury XP is 7, and I honestly hope it does. The beta is amazing, and I can’t wait to see the final release.