Moblin

Screenshot of Moblin 2.1
Developer	The Linux Foundation/Intel
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Discontinued (merged withMeeGo)
Source model	Open source
Latest release	2.1 / November 4, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11-04)
Marketing target	Mobile devices
Package manager	RPM Package Manager
Kernel type	Monolithic (Linux)
Userland	GNU
License	Various
Official website	moblin.org

Moblin, short for 'mobileLinux', is a discontinuedopen sourceoperating system and application stack forMobile Internet Devices (MIDs),netbooks,nettops and embedded devices.^[1]

Moblin was built around theIntel Atom processor. All builds of Moblin were designed to minimize boot times and power consumption, as Moblin was a netbook and MID-centric operating system. The netbook/desktop version of Moblin supported other chipsets based on theSSSE3 instruction set, such as theCore2 and someCeleron processors.

OEM support was scarce but hit an all-time high in 2009 whenAcer replacedLinpus Linux with Moblin on theirAcer Aspire One netbooks^[2][3] andLG Electronics chose Moblin OS 2.1 for itsmobile Internet device classsmartphone the LG GW990.^[4][5]Dell also once accepted orders for netbooks runningCanonical'sUbuntu Moblin Remix.^[6] Few commercial products existed around Moblin 2, most prominently a netbook fromFoxconn^[7] and asmartphone from InvenTech,^[8] both announced atComputex 2009.Mandriva offered Moblin's v2 version to all Mandriva distribution and netbook owners.^[9] At theConsumer Electronics Show in January 2010, MSI and Novell announcedSUSE Moblin preloaded on theMSI U135 netbook. Following the release of Moblin version 2.1, this was the first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to sell a fully supported Intel Atom processor-based netbook running Moblin-based technology to consumers. It was demonstrated at both the MSI and Intel booths at the show.^[10] In addition, Samsung showed four netbooks preloaded with SUSE Moblin.

At theMobile World Congress in February 2010, it was announced that the Moblin project would be merging withMaemo to create theMeeGo mobile software platform. Nokia stopped all MeeGo development after switching toWindows Phone in 2011 and Intel also discontinued work on it to join theTizen project instead.

Intel launched the Moblin.org site in July 2007 and significantly updated the site in April 2008 with the launch of the Intel Atom processor family at theIntel Developer Forum in Shanghai. A customsoftware development kit (SDK) is available on the site. The Moblin 2 OS was specifically designed to run on an Intel Atom processor in a netbook.^[11]

In April 2009, Intel turned Moblin over to theLinux Foundation. Subsequently, Moblin was merged with Maemo, becoming MeeGo. MeeGo's development was also hosted by the Linux Foundation, and initially governed by a Technical Steering Group overseen by Imad Sousou of Intel and Nokia's Valtteri Halla.^[12]

The Linux Foundation canceled MeeGo in September 2011 in favor ofTizen.^[13] A new Finnish start-up,Jolla, announced in July 2012 that MeeGo's community-driven successorMer,^[14] would be the basis of their new operating systemSailfish OS slated to launch in a smartphone during 2013.^[15]

At the Linux Collaboration Summit in April 2009, Intel demonstrated that the Moblin 2 alpha release can load major components of the stack, including the graphics system, and start up in mere seconds.^[16] On May 19, 2009, Imad Sousou announced the release of Moblin v2.0 beta for Netbooks and Nettops for developer testing.^[17] Moblin 2's Core distribution is based on recent builds ofFedora, but other distributions to announce future support for the core Moblin stack includeLinpus^[2] and Ubuntu.^[18][19]

This second major release marked a shift from theXfcedesktop environment to a custom-builtGNOME Mobile UI based onOpenedHand'sClutter, a key piece of the Maemo graphical environment, built around theX Window System. The new UI also includes an integratedGecko web browser.^[20]The Register was impressed by the interface but noted the presence of "quite a few apparent bugs" and described the beta release of Moblin 2 as "closer to an alpha than a beta.".^[21]

• Moblin Image Creator (MIC): allows developers to create a custom Linux file system for a device. Using MIC, a platform developer can choose which components from Moblin they want on their device, build the target file system, copy all the necessary files to aUSB mass storage device and load the resulting files onto the target.
• Kernel: platform-specific patches to theLinux kernel and various other device drivers.
• UI Framework: screen interface and its underlying Clutter- andGTK+-based framework.
• Power Management Policy: extending and enhancing existing Linux power management capabilities
• Browser: the Moblin browser is full-featured web browser based onMozilla technologies with a finger-driven UI and MID UI integration.^{[citation needed]} The Moblin browser supports key plug-ins^{[clarification needed]} likeAdobe Flash.
• Multimedia: audio and video playback and photo viewing includingHelix orGStreamer multimedia frameworks withUniversal Plug and Play support through the GUPnP library.
• Linux Connection Manager:Internet connections that can be extended through plug-ins^{[clarification needed]} to support various wired or wireless technologies.

Moblin 2's interface is designed for netbook and nettops and built on open source graphics technology, such as Clutter,DRI2, andKMS, which are designed around toolbars and panels available at the top of the screen.

• Myzone is a variation on the desktop or home screen. It provides an overview of the user's latest activities on the system. The screen is divided into three areas: recent activities, that is calendar and to-do items (left); recent files and websites, such as pictures viewed and websites visited (center); and recent social network updates, currently tracking Twitter and Last.fm (right).
• A custom toolbar provides more personalized content on the screens it navigates to, than most toolbars do. Most menu items open screens that display the most recently accessed topical content. For example, the work zones panel manages, organizes, and switches to currently running applications and the media panel displays recently played and viewed media files.
• The optimized browser is based on Mozilla browser technology revised into a Clutter shell.
• A 'zoomable' media player allows going from viewing all media at once down to focusing on an individual picture, movie, or audio track. The media player detects and indexes media on external USB devices, as well as UPnP devices on a network.

• Android
• Ubuntu for Android
• Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
• Sailfish OS

• Moblin open source project
• Moblin v2.0 Beta: Calling Developers to Work on the Next Big Thing
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• Paul, Ryan (2009-01-28)."Intel releases Linux-based Moblin 2 Alpha for Netbooks".ars technica.Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved2009-01-29.
• "Canonical announces support for Moblin v2". ubuntu.com. 2009-06-02. Archived fromthe original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved2009-06-04.
• "Moblin switching from Ubuntu to Fedora". 2008-07-25. Archived fromthe original on 2009-02-14. Retrieved2009-06-02.

• Embedded Linux
• Intel software
• Mobile Linux
• Netbooks
• Software that uses GTK
• Software that uses Clutter (software)
• 2007 software

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