Adventures With Moblin Linux

About a week ago I decided to throw the Moblin v2.0 beta [Wikipedia] on my netbook (an Acer Aspire One). I’ve previously been running the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and have been pretty happy with it. I haven’t been using my netbook much lately and Moblin’s was rocking new interface really intrigued me. So I decided to try it out. Moblin’s core release is built on top of Fedora...

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The Buzz on Netbooks

Netbooks have existed for some time now, but have just recently become popular. A type of sub-notebook computer, netbooks are small, light and inexpensive. Originally, netbooks almost exclusively ran Linux operating systems due to performance and price benefits over Windows. Now many netbooks offer a choice between a Windows or Linux based operating system. Although not as powerful as...

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