Community Matters

The Moblin development team has been working very hard over the last few months and finally released the first public alpha of Moblin 2. You can get images (very useful hybrid ones that boot from both CD and USB stick as well as KVM or VMware images) at the Moblin website. If you want to play with the Moblin 2 image on your netbook, please be aware that these images are optimized for Atom processor based systems (as they heavily rely on SSE3 for performance reasons – so technically they’d run on Core 2 Duo processor based systems as well, I guess).

We’ve tested them on the Acer Aspire One, the EeePC 901 and 1000 and the Dell Mini 9. They should run on most of the other Atom processor based Netbooks and we’d be very interested to hear about success (or problem) reports from those.