Moblin vs Linpus vs Ubuntu
Jun. 8th, 2009 01:23 pmI spent a bit of time yesterday playing with Moblin on the netbook.
After a bit of bemusement, I started to get to grips with it - running off a USB drive, rather than actually installed proper, it seemed sufficiently speedy, although the downloadable image doesn't seem to include a word processor, which was a bit of a surprise omission.
Anyway, it's a Linux (of course) distro specifically designed to cater for netbooks (and other Mobile Internet Devices), sponsored by Intel, which seems a little surprising, given how closely tied Intel seem to be to Microsoft.
The netbook had, briefly, been running Ubuntu's netbook remix: that seemed a little sluggish, but I've since added 1GB of RAM to the beast, so perhaps should reinvestigate that option before writing it off completely. The Ubuntu remix did have multiple user management by default, whereas both Linpus and Moblin launch you straight into the user desktop.
Compared to the gloss of Ubuntu and the slick UI with Moblin, Linpus (and here I'm talking about the de-Fisher Priced proper-XFCE-desktop, rather than Acer's awful 'interface') feels old fashioned and rather slow.
Overall, then, I liked Moblin, a discovery which seems to be counter to the general vibe I'd picked up from the Internetz, but I won't really be able to come to a conclusion proper until I've done a full install to disk, and tried the software management and such.
After a bit of bemusement, I started to get to grips with it - running off a USB drive, rather than actually installed proper, it seemed sufficiently speedy, although the downloadable image doesn't seem to include a word processor, which was a bit of a surprise omission.
Anyway, it's a Linux (of course) distro specifically designed to cater for netbooks (and other Mobile Internet Devices), sponsored by Intel, which seems a little surprising, given how closely tied Intel seem to be to Microsoft.
The netbook had, briefly, been running Ubuntu's netbook remix: that seemed a little sluggish, but I've since added 1GB of RAM to the beast, so perhaps should reinvestigate that option before writing it off completely. The Ubuntu remix did have multiple user management by default, whereas both Linpus and Moblin launch you straight into the user desktop.
Compared to the gloss of Ubuntu and the slick UI with Moblin, Linpus (and here I'm talking about the de-Fisher Priced proper-XFCE-desktop, rather than Acer's awful 'interface') feels old fashioned and rather slow.
Overall, then, I liked Moblin, a discovery which seems to be counter to the general vibe I'd picked up from the Internetz, but I won't really be able to come to a conclusion proper until I've done a full install to disk, and tried the software management and such.
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