Posted on Thursday, June 04 2009 @ 2:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
PC World
reports Acer has decided to use Moblin Linux across its products, the operating system will be used for netbooks, nettops, laptops and desktop PCs.
"Acer is in the process of putting Moblin in the range of its products," said R.C. Chang, chief technology officer at Acer, at a news conference in Taipei. Acer products that will soon run with Moblin Linux include Aspire One nettops, as well as regular laptop and desktop PCs, he said.
Aspire One netbooks already running Moblin were on display at the news conference. Moblin was developed for netbooks, which are mini-laptops built for mobility with low-power microprocessors, 10-inch screens and six-cell batteries for long run times. An updated version of the operating system, Moblin 2.0, was released last month, and it has proven popular at Computex Taipei 2009.
