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It was during the conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention held in Portland the USA from 21 to 25 July that Intel has announced that the second version of its draft Moblin would be based on the GNU / Linux Fedora, Ubuntu and not as was originally planned. Dirk Hounded, the head technological Linux & Open Source Intel said that the choice was motivated partly by the system software packages RPM.The package management system is a central element in a Linux distribution that simplifies the installation of software and libraries, which they depend. The RPM system, used by many distributions (and in particular by SuSE whose Dirk Hohndel was CTO), is supported by a broad community and helps manage licensing, a feature of the system used by DEB Ubuntu does not have. This feature allows you to filter certain licenses and permits for example to establish an environment devoid of licensing owners.
Hounded has reassured developers who had already involved in developing the first version Moblin, based on Ubuntu and its system DEB packages, saying they could continue to contribute to Moblin converting their packages. Intel plans to introduce the first pre-Moblin version 2.0 during the Intel Developer Forum to be held in San Francisco from 19 to 21 August.
Moblin The project began in July 2007 and has a mission to develop software for the Mobile Internet Devices (MID), these portable machines dedicated to the Internet. Moblin joined the platform Atom in Intel’s mobility strategy and both should make good household, one allowing the promotion of another. Ironically, distribution nomadic competing Ubuntu MID Edition unveiled in June 2008 is based on Moblin 1.0. The match can begin.