What is Intel’s mobile Linux game?
Intel has a new mobile Linux project dubbed Moblin (right).
It includes a Linux kernel, a framework for a user interface, a browser, a multimedia framework, and embedded image creation tools, along with developer resources.
Sounds great until you realize there are a ton of other, similar frameworks under development. Nokia backs Maemo, Trolltech has Qtopia, and you’ll remember we profiled OpenMoko just a week ago.
So what gives?
Mostly it’s positioning.
Also:
Intel (Quote) is pushing its mobile Linux development efforts with Moblin.org, a new resource site for open source projects focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices.
The site has already posted an initial list of projects that it will undertake, including key components such as the kernel, browser, power management framework and a user interface framework.
So far the site lists Ubuntu's Mobile and Embedded Edition and Red Flag's MIDINUX Linux distributions as participants. This leaves out what is arguably the world's most deployed embedded Linux distribution: MontaVista Linux.
That said, there is a fundamental difference between what Intel is doing with Moblin and what MontaVista does.
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