May 21
What is Moblin?
Moblin is an open source project focused on developing software for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). It is jointly being developed by Intel and the Linux Foundation. It is optimised for Netbooks powered by the Intel Atom processor. Moblin v2.0 Beta was launched very recently.
Official Site – Moblin.Org
Moblin – Wikipedia
Download Moblin
You can download Moblin v2.0 beta from the official Moblin site – Download Moblin
It’s a 670 MB IMG which you can then burn on your USB drive or a CD and then install it on your Netbook or Laptop.
Here are the Official Download Links -
Moblin Download
Moblin Torrent – MD5
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Jan 04
A great start to 2009. Two geeks at Venturebeat have managed to port the Android OS to an X86 based Asus EEE PC. It is the first major mobile OS that has been ported to a standard computer. Almost all driver incompatibilities have been sorted and all the hardware is working great. The main roadblocks – compiling the Android code on a X86 based CPU instead of a ARM CPU commonly used in smartphones, and porting the framebuffer graphic drivers of Android to work on PCs have been blown off. It’s great news especially for me, as I have been an early adopter of netbooks as well as an Android enthusiast.
Speculation that Android may soon be officially ported for normal computers is on a high since someone noticed that there are separate policies for phones and MID’s (Mobile Internet Devices) in Google’s Android product policy.
More details:
Android Ported to Netbooks
Android Netbooks FAQ
Android Porting – Google Group
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