Moblin 2.1 – First Impressions

Moblin logoAfter some disasters with Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One (it just stopped working, X crashing and other problems) I tried moblin again. Installed version 2.1 beta and my first impression is that it is more stable than 2.0 at the moment.

The browser seems more stable, loading pages faster. Unfortunately the flash plugin is not fast enough. Who knows if it works better next time. Although this is true, there is a huge difference between a common linux browser (like Firefox) time to load a page and moblin time.

Regarding connections with the world, the gtalk account was configured correctly at first. Regarding Twitter, it took some more time. First because it opened a browser, but did not say it would do that, and I closed it. And the second time the browser did not start. After some time I found out what was happening (moblin needed the Twitter PIN code) and I was able to register. After two minutes twitter updates weren’t available yet. After five minutes the first updates started appearing. Unfortunately after 30 minutes of work I wasn’t able to twit yet.

Tried as well the tool to watch pictures. It started a slideshow, but the slideshow window was covered by the moblin window. Fail…

Later tonight I’ll do some more experiments…

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