Intel to help with Chrome for netbooks
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Imad Sousou, who is in charge of the Moblin mobile Linux project, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that Intel did not view Moblin as a competitor to other versions of Linux. The company will work with Google in the same way it is working with other Linux distributors such as Novell and Canonical, he said.
Intel's Moblin, which is tailored to the chipmaker's Atom processor, can be used as an operating system for netbooks and other mobile devices in its own right. However, other Linux distributors can also take parts of it — particularly the user-experience components such as its social-networking integration and media management — and incorporate those into netbook-optimized versions of their own distributions.
Novell has already released a Moblin-using version of Suse Linux for netbooks, and Canonical is about to do the same with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Sousou said Intel will work with Google on Chrome OS, but he would not say whether a specific development collaboration between the two companies had begun yet. "We already work with Google in the upstreams — the kernel, the graphics subsystems and all those great upstream Linux products," he said. "This is what happens in the open-source community."
Google announced the development of the browser-centric Chrome OS in July, predicting that the operating system would find its way onto netbooks in the second half of 2010.
Intel's work in maintaining Linux compatibility with Bluetooth technology has already been used in Google's Android mobile operating system, Sousou pointed out. He added that this work had also been used in Nokia's Maemo mobile Linux operating system.
This article was originally posted on ZDNet UK.
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And yet pundits keep saying Intel wants people to buy more expensive chips
And maybe they do. But their actions seems to show that they know the market is heading towards less expensive chips.
Michael Kelly16th Sep 2009 -
Once Intel realized they could not stop it, they jumped in with both feet.
But, we DO need competition to keep the
innovation going full speed. The fear of Chrome
OS running on quad core Arm, or soon eight core
Arm has put the fear of god into Intel.
DonnieBoy16th Sep 2009 -
Hedging one's bets is always wise -
particularly in so volatile a situation as the present one. Good strategic move on the part Intel !...
Henri
mhenriday16th Sep 2009 -
And, considering that Chrome OS is Linux based, helping Google
make sure Chrome OS runs well on Intel hardware
costs Intel very little. Intel has to be worried
about Chrome OS running very well on Arm and
using less power.
Intel is just as eager as anybody else to break
the Windows stranglehold and force MS to lower
prices. If the OS is not so expensive, they can
sell a lot more CPUs.DonnieBoy16th Sep 2009 -
RE: Intel to help with Chrome for netbooks
So in order to get anything to work on linux you need to have two large corporations work on the project? That is pretty sad. In fact its unheard of in other operating systems. Just another reason why linux will never be a major player.
Loverock Davidson16th Sep 2009 -
Netbook, netbook , netbook!
CPU is intel or ARM or VIA, OS is microsoft or google or linux, they all runs inside, but keyboard are people use direct. It never change for over 100 years.
It's time for keyboard update.
----kind-Tao new keyboard
kind99916th Sep 2009 -
The combination of a free OS and vibrant competition for low power, but
high performance processors will mean some pretty amazing and
pretty cheap 12 inch netbooks.
Still looking forward to a quad core Arm netbook running
Chrome OS (or Ubuntu Netbook Remix) that goes 12 hours on a
charge.DonnieBoy16th Sep 2009 -
RE: Intel to help with Chrome for netbooks
Go for it google, hopefully, Intel s gonna pay You too,
hopefully You wont have to join its side in its never-
ending litigations (more to come, I bet).
woolfing16th Nov 2009
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