Been trying it.

Submitted by Modred189 on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 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. 

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crafty

Submitted by mesiah on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 9:05pm

I'm sure this will have people up in arms. Intel has definately taken heat lately for using underhanded methods of keeping other manufacturers out of the proccessor business, but looks like this method is actually legit. Instead of bribing companies to support only intel, they standardize an operating system that doesn't support anything other than atom proccessors :D  *queue sinister laugh*

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I like playing with linux. 

Submitted by almax on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 4:09pm

I like playing with linux.  But this is just liptstick on a pig.

 

"will supposedly work with thousands of Linux applications without any porting or middleware"

so alot of linux apps will work with this linux OS? WOW

 

"designed to take advantage of the smaller screens"

so then it works at the native resolution of the netbook screens? WOW

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Intel has done its part

Submitted by Vadi on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 1:46pm

Intel has done its part well. Now to hope that marketers will realize what this thing is, and not mess up like they did with other linux-based os's.

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