Posted on Thursday, January 29 2009 @ 5:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel has been at the forefront of producing hardware for
netbooks and other mobile devices thanks to their Atom processor
family, but they are also looking at being a key part of the mobile
software ecosystem. Back in 2007 we witnessed the launch of the Moblin
project, which is Intel's open-source venture for creating a complete
stack of software for these mobile devices. Originally, the Moblin core
was based upon Ubuntu, but Intel ended up rebasing off Fedora last year
and they have been preparing for the second version of their core
operating system. Just this week they released Moblin V2 Core Alpha,
which we are looking at in this article. Specifically, we are looking at
how fast this Intel software is able to boot!
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