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Moblin is not the UIMoblin is not the UIPosted Nov 26, 2009 23:51 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Moblin is not the UI by nedrichards Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Moblin review I'm still confused as to what Moblin is. What you're calling the Moblin interface: is this a user interface? If so, I would certainly recommend putting the word "user" in there, because there are lots of other kinds of interfaces.
"Moblin' is the distro that you get from moblin.org Is this "distro" in the Linux sense, i.e. operating system? Is this thing I get from moblin.org something I can install on bare hardware? The product the grumpy editor reviewed is Ubuntu with the Moblin interface on top What about Moblin Core, or what the previous poster called the stack of components underneath the UI. Are those in there somewhere too? At one point, the grumpy editor replaces Moblin 2.0 with 2.1, all the while separately running Ubuntu. Did he misspeak? Because that seems inconsistent with your definition of Moblin.
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Moblin is not the UI Posted Nov 27, 2009 19:11 UTC (Fri) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]
Moblin is a vision.
A vision of how the user should experience a netbook.
The implementation for that vision contains many pieces; the most visible one is the desktop environment. But experience is a lot more than just the desktop environment; it includes network connectivity, power, performance, boot, etc.
The Moblin project publishes a Linux distribution that works towards this vision; other OS vendors work with the Moblin project towards a similar vision and sometimes have "Moblin" as part of their product name.
I realize that this is sometimes confusion, and our grumpy editor got confused a little bit as well; just adding more to the general confusion.
The only thing that tries to keep the Moblin ideas "whole" is the trademark (including compliance); but that is a fine balance. One the one hand, there are requirements on when/how you can use the trademark (don't ask me, I'm not the guardian of that), on the other hand the open source community frowns on enforcing trademarks like this in general....
Moblin is not the UI Posted Dec 4, 2009 21:40 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
"I'm still confused as to what Moblin is."
I was under the impression that it was Intel's attempt to try and tie as much of the mobile linux infrastructure to x86 as possible and distract people from ARM.
Am I wrong?
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