Moblin 2.1 on Sony VAIO Laptop at Black God

Moblin 2.1 on Sony VAIO Laptop

Now a days I don’t spend time on downloading, installing and testing linux distributions since I am busy with other stuff. I often hear about Moblin distribution specialized for Netbooks. It has a unique User interface designed keeping in mind that Netbook screen estate is small and 16:9 aspect ratio. The hardware requirement is worth mentioned here since it is too restrictive.

CPU: Intel(r) Atom(tm) or Intel(r) Core(tm) 2 CPU (support for SSSE3)
Note: Moblin will not work on non-SSSE3 CPUs

Platforms with the GMA-500, Nvidia, or ATI Graphics chipset are not supported.

Because of these points, I thought of testing this distro on my Sony VAIO VGN-CS15GN/B laptop. Luckily this laptop fits the above requirement of distro. Moblin performs tasks faster than Ubuntu as I feel while working (I don’t have any statistics to justify this). User Interface is in right direction to make it more friendly. Applications are closely integrated with desktop environment. I believe successive releases will make it more cloud friendly.

Here is the screenshots gallery on my laptop.

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1 Comment. Posted by Black God on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:09 pm.

Filed under Happenings, Linux, Moblin, Netbook, Screenshot, Sony, SSSE3, VAIO.

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Mr Magoo says:

It rocks? Well, I assume you got mp3 and xvid working. If not, Moblin cant rock

Posted on December 25, 2009 at 1:05 am. (Reply)

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Well said!

If you have to gain all these other "soft skills" or business skills in order to just be a regular software engineer, then why keep working for someone else? One of the main reasons for being an employee is because it's (supposed to be) both easier and safer than striking out on your own. Instead of long hours and having to wear many hats, you can just concentrate on your own skill, and leave the business stuff to the people who specialize in that. Anyone familiar with the idea of specialized labor should understand this. The downside is (supposed to be) your pay is lower than it could potentially be by owning and operating your own business. If today's corporations want their regular rank-and-file employees to wear many hats, be multi-talented, and have a lot of business skills, then they're simply not doing their own jobs correctly. - Grishnakh (Slashdot user)

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