[vox] Moblin

[Darth Borehd]

What packages does Moblin use?  Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora?

2009/10/3 Michael Cheselka <cheselka at gmail.com>

> Hello Brian,
>
> > shared memory? Anyway, I am impressed! I guess that is contrary to what
> > you found?
>
> Huh?  I said I liked it.  I recommended it to you.
>
> My main complaint is that these machines are not that different from
> desktops, so why strip down Firefox and other programs?!  It's
> retarded to think netbook = pda.  It's really an ultra portable
> desktop.  The main benefit is that you can use it off-and-on during
> the day, wherever you are, instead of going to your desktop because
> it's so portable; therefore it's always there with you.  Regular
> laptops are really desktops in a different form factor and have lousy
> battery life( and hour or two) and weigh so much and are so large that
> they are not really portable at all because you wind up leaving them
> behind.  The weight and size of a regular laptop are so discouraging I
> have stopped carrying  them with me and are only using them on my
> couch, home bathroom, and in my bed.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Cheselka
> 650-488-4820
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:43, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I installed moblin and I am really impressed. I boosted my Mini 9 to 2
> > Gigs of RAM, and it flies. The whole interface is different. I installed
> > the Dell/Canonical custom spin. It is built for the Mini 10v, but the
> > from what I can see, the Mini 9 has the same specs. It's just smaller!
> > It must be the SSE3 instruction set that makes things work so well. Or,
> > maybe it is this extra Gig of RAM. I believe the intel 950 graphics uses
> > shared memory? Anyway, I am impressed! I guess that is contrary to what
> > you found?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:31:15AM -0700, Michael Cheselka wrote:
> >> Hello Brian,
> >>
> >> I've used both and they're both great.  Moblin boots incredibly fast.
> >>
> >> They both suffer from an urge to strip things down.  I'm referring to
> >> special compilations of firefox that are stripped down because you
> >> "only" have 1GB of ram on a 1.6Ghz machine...  Please people!!!
> >> Give me the real firefox!!!!!  It's so stupid.  These are netbooks
> >> not palmtops running with 128MB of ram on a 400Mhz low electrical
> >> use cpus.
> >>
> >> Other than that complaint it's all good.  There's no harm in trying them
> >> both.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Michael Cheselka
> >> 650-488-4820
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 23:45, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> >> > Has anyone tried it? Or any comments on it? I see that Dell is selling
> >> > the Mini 10v with it.
> >> >
> >> > http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-dell-deliver-ubuntu-moblin-remix
> >> >
> >> > It appears that it should run on the Mini 9.
> >> >
> >> > brian
> >> > --
> >> > Brian Lavender
> >> > http://www.brie.com/brian/
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