I'm currently at GUADEC, and there is a lot of buzz about Moblin. There's a BoF later today showing it off - Moblin is a full based Linux distro that is using Mutter (Clutter + Metacity) for the UI, and has a mostly complete stack of GNOME software underneath. (Some stuff is different, like ConnMan instead of Network-Manager). Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora will all be shipping Moblin based netbook versions next year, and GNOME 3.0 will be moving to Mutter as well. It's a pretty exciting time. It will be interesting to hear this morning what folks in the community think of Google's announcement. Paul On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com<mbmiller%2Bl at gmail.com> > wrote: > This is interesting (article below). Google is developing "Chrome OS" and > Intel is developing "Moblin". Moblin is said to be "Linux-based". The > article does not say that Chrome OS is Linux-based but it does say that > Chrome OS is "open source." > > Strangely, I just happened to be reading this article earlier today: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html > > But that is 3.5 years old and maybe Google is much stronger in OS > development today having done Android and a company internal Linux distro > (says the new article). > > Mike > > > Breaking News Alert > The New York Times > Wednesday, July 8, 2009 -- 12:39 AM ET > ----- > > Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System > > In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is expected to announce on > Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal > computer based on its Chrome browser, according to two people briefed on > Google's plans. > > The move would sharpen the already intense competition between Google and > Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of > the vast majority of personal computers. > > Read More: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?_r=1&hp > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090708/892912ba/attachment.htm