Acer Says They Will Use Moblin Linux on Netbooks: Does Linux Still Have a Shot at the Netbook Market?

I thought Intel’s Moblin Linux was a Linux distro with its graphical user interface (GUI) tuned for netbooks in the way that Ubuntu Netbook Remix is. But, based on this list of Moblin variations reported by PC World…

– Suse Moblin
– Xandros Moblin
– Linpus Moblin
– Red Flag Moblin
– Ubuntu Moblin



…it sounds more like an X11 window manager similar to the familiar (to Linux users) Gnome and KDE. Whatever the case, PC World also reports that…

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