Modred189

May 21, 2009 at 5:22am

I put this on my Acer Aspire One. It runs VERY fast, which is nice, since Ubuntu ran like crap. 

The web browser is SICK. It has great animations that make the UI feel very smooth and polished.

It's also minimalistic while not shrinking the buttons too much at all. Moblin also includes a minefield build

but it does not have all of the plug-ins (flash) that the built-in webkit browser does. IN addition, the default

browser does not seem to have any bookmark ability. It does have a speed-dial like new tab page,

but no bookmarks... hrm...

The IM client is ok, though it only supports google talk, salut and jabber. Would like to see AIM on there.

ALso, there is no facebook support, only twitter (which I hate) and last.fm (which I have never used, though

I might try now).

Also, It's nice to see that it interacts with some free syncing services, though my favorite (dropbox) is not

on there. It can use Funambol, Memotoo, Schedule wizard and Synthesis.

The media browser that aggregates music, photos and video is flawless, to say the least. I will have to load

some movies to really test it, but the included videos ran very well, though that's to be expected, I guess.

I will be happy when playlists are supported.

One thing that was done brilliantly was the idea of Zones. Basically, each app opens in its own Zone, which

seems like it's own desktop. Switching between zones is pretty easy (they have their own menu in the toolbar

), and it keeps things manageable on smaller netbook screens. Several areas, like the browser settings

button, lead to pages saying that there is more content incoming through the beta process.

Also, strangely enough, I cannot find the shutdown/restart button. 0.o 

Hope to see some of this stuff addressed.