Moblin Spin

Moblin Netbook Spin

Summary

The Fedora Moblin Netbook spin is a spin on the Moblin User Experience for Netbooks in Fedora

Owner(s)

• Name: Peter Robinson
• email: pbrobinson at gmail dot com

Detailed Description

The Moblin Architecture is designed to support multiple platforms and usage models ranging from Netbooks and NetTops to Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and various embedded usage models, such as In Vehicle Infotainment systems. The central piece of the architecture is the common layer called "Moblin Core". Moblin Core is built on the GNOME Mobile platform, extending and enriching it with new technologies like Clutter, GUPnP and mojito. The Moblin Core is the core desktop environment that sits of top of Fedora, and above the Moblin Core are the specific user interface and user interaction model for the target device(s).

Benefit to Fedora

The current release of Fedora GUI environments aren't optimised for the small screen environments of NetBook and MID devices. This will allow for a desktop environment that is optimised for these newer small, cheap devices that are becoming popular.

Kickstart File

http://pbrobinson.fedorapeople.org/FedoraMini/fedora-mini-base.ks

http://pbrobinson.fedorapeople.org/FedoraMini/fedora-mini-moblinNetbook.ks

ISO Name / FS Label

Fedora12-Moblin-arch-LiveCD.iso

Dependencies

The current plan is to base the Spin on Moblin 2.2. If there are issues with getting Moblin 2.2 into Fedora due to either upstream or other issues we will fall back to shipping Moblin 2.1 which already has all required packages in Fedora rawhide although some may require updates.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:MoblinNetbook_Spin