Intel brings rich UI to Moblin Linux platform
Moblin is Intel's Linux-based based mobile platform for netbooks and MIDs. It is heavily optimized for the Atom processor and is designed to work well on small form-factor devices. The project is gaining significant traction among Linux distributors and many have partnered with Intel to participate in the development effort.The long-term goal is to turn Moblin into the nexus of mobile Linux development and make it the de facto standard Linux platform for portable devices.
The new interface is built with Clutter, an open source scene graph framework that supports hardware-accelerated rendering. Clutter was created by OpenedHand, an open source startup that Intel acquired last year. The Clutter framework is closely aligned with the GNOME ecosystem and has been adopted by several prominent vendors that are building Linux platforms with GNOME technology. Clutter is used pervasively in Nokia's next-generation Internet Tablet operating system and will also be used in the next major version of ACCESS's smartphone operating system.
Moblin's graphics stack includes a standard Xorg server and can run conventional desktop Linux applications. Much of the software that is available today on mainstream Linux distributions can be brought to Moblin without requiring any porting effort. In fact, the beta includes quite a few standard GTK+ applications, such as GEdit.
Social networking and instant messaging features are an important part of Moblin. The platform includes Empathy, GNOME's open source instant messaging client, which is built on the telepathy presence and messaging framework. In the beta release, I was able to configure Empathy to connect with my Google Talk account.
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The new interface is built with Clutter, an open source scene graph framework that supports hardware-accelerated rendering. Clutter was created by OpenedHand, an open source startup that Intel acquired last year. The Clutter framework is closely aligned with the GNOME ecosystem and has been adopted by several prominent vendors that are building Linux platforms with GNOME technology. Clutter is used pervasively in Nokia's next-generation Internet Tablet operating system and will also be used in the next major version of ACCESS's smartphone operating system.
Moblin's graphics stack includes a standard Xorg server and can run conventional desktop Linux applications. Much of the software that is available today on mainstream Linux distributions can be brought to Moblin without requiring any porting effort. In fact, the beta includes quite a few standard GTK+ applications, such as GEdit.
Social networking and instant messaging features are an important part of Moblin. The platform includes Empathy, GNOME's open source instant messaging client, which is built on the telepathy presence and messaging framework. In the beta release, I was able to configure Empathy to connect with my Google Talk account.
More will come soon >>>>>>>>
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