Moblin v2.0 beta for Netbooks and Nettops - It's here...

this text is in Spanish using google translator to follow the steps because the commands are in English (note this version and the link is in Spanish but also in the official page of openoffice you can find them)

descargamos este archivo (copiar enlace y pegar en navegador)

http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxint...

una vez descargada con el explorador nos vamos a la carpeta que donde se guardo boton derecho y descomprimir quedara una carpeta llamada OOo_3.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_es y nos metemos en la carpeta y dentro de esta a la carpeta rpms.

copiamos la ruta. ej: /home/thetrincho/Descargas/OOo_3.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_es/RPMS

nos vamos a aplicaciones y dentro de accesorios buscamos terminal y ejecutamos, se abre terminal.

escribimos : cd (aqui copiar la ruta )

nos llevara a la carpeta

vale hasta hay bien ...

nos vamos a zonas (arriva barra desplegable) esto te permitira ir copiando los comando en vez de teclearlos , copias este comando luego click en zonas vuelves a terminal que estara abierto , pegas el comando y enter

su -c 'rpm -ivh *.rpm'

esto empezara a instalar openoffice no tengan miedo es raro pero lo hace solo.(para los nuevos los viejos ya saben lo que hay lo explico demasiado para garantizar que salga bien)
tarda un rato si queres hazte un te

ya esta esta instalado pero no funciona del todo ...

vale ahora viene integrar todo para que te aparezcan los iconos en la seccion de aplicaciones y dentro de ella en oficina que es lo suyo.

volvemos a la solapa zonas y nos vamos la carpeta rpms como anteriormente y esta vez dentro de rpms hay una carpeta llamada desktop-integration otra vez nos metemos en ella y copiamos la ruta .

volvemos a zonas y vamos a la carpeta terminal abierta.(si la cerraste repetis el paso de abrir terminal desde aplicaciones y lo mismo. cd (y la ruta)

ya estamos dentro ahora queda copiar el comando y pegar

su -c 'rpm -ivh openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus-3.1-9399.noarch.rpm'

(para entendidos: si bien pone redhat es porque moblin es fedora redhab based)

y ya esta eso es todo amigos lo podemos ver en la solapa aplicaciones y dento en oficina esta todo el paquete con sus iconos .

pero que pasa ahora al hacer doble click en un archivo doc,pps,xml, etc no va...

simple tienes que educar a tu moblin y como se hace
solucion rapida boton derecho sobre el archivo en particular, abrir con otra aplicacion , eliges el programa por ejemplo impress para pps(powerpoint) y la proxima vez no sera necesario (muy similar a windows)
y a disfrutar

dudas ruegos agradecimientos y demas son bienvenidos

saludos amiguetes del moblinismo

why this OS only supported atom CPU
how i can testing this OS with amd64

When I try to install Moblin on an USB stick (8GB) after a reboot the loader will stop with this errormessage:

[ 1.245511] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
[ 1.246079] [drm:intelfb_panic] *ERROR* panic occurred, switching back
to text console

I tried to install several times of different USB-sticks, still the same error.

Who can help? What is happening? How can I solve this problem?

Open source is the way to go. I had Linux Puppy on my U100 MSI Wind, will have to try out the Moblin linux platform. Thanks!

No new releases.

No news of why there are no new releases.

I'm been waiting since May for a stable release. It's okay if there are no new releases but please kindly let us know what actually is going on with the development. Leaving us in the blank is not really a good idea for the growth of Moblin. Beacause right now, It just seems that moblin just dropped dead and we didn't knew about it.

You guys are lucky I still believe in this OS.

I just read under known issues that Moblin 2.0 beta does not support the Intel GMA 500 chipset. Unfortunately the new acer aspire with 11.6 screens only come with the GMA 500. Is there an effort from moblin team to add the GMA 500 platform in the near future?
=======================================================================================

The moblin 2.0 image worked fine with the Intel GMA 950 on the acer aspire netbook (10.1 screen) but does not work with the Intel GMA 500 which is on the new acer aspire (11.6 screen). Can someone tell me, if there is a new image for the intel GMA 500 or how to create a new image that will work with the Intel GMA 500.

Thanks

Jay

I'm using it on my Samsung n120 and everything works pretty well. I wish the Calendar and Sync tools were a wee bit more developed and easier to use, but besides that, the concept is great and it is a winner. I've showed it around to some colleagues during the recent Red Hat / JBoss Summit in Chicago and everybody liked it. Keep up the good work.

I actually have a real time patch with real time enhancements,can I apply that patch with Moblin V2 or V1? Can I access the Moblin V2 or V1 source code for the same? And can any one of you please give me the details for setting up bluetooth fully and accessing net through mobile gprs. And my D-Link WiFi dongle isn't getting detected at all and doesnt blink and running "connmand -n -d" says "command not found".what could be the reason? I am using Russellville Board currently with Moblin V1.Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to just update the installation instead of downloading and re-installing whenever a weekly beta refresh release of the Moblin distribution comes out?
Thanks, Tony

Everyone, please report bugs in the bugzilla.

A post here will easily fall through the cracks but a report on the bugzilla will make sure QA and developers see your issue.

Hey,

Just tried Moblin 2 on a Toshiba N205 -- and it's fantastic! The sound didn't seem to work, but the wifi did, flash did, and all the apps (including neverball... wow!) worked great.

Some more polish and this will be fantastic!

I just installed the latest beta datet 07/21/09. Tried installing the broadcom wifi according to slaines new instructions:
http://slaine.org/_slaine/Dell_Mini_9.html

When running 'sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”' I get some dependency errors. Can anyone help? Maybe Glen Gray reads this and can help?
I already tried an Atheros based wifi but found that it draws about 1.2 watts more than the broadcom wifi, measured with a power meter! This makes me want to stick with it.

I have Successfully installed Moblin 2.0 in my toshiba nb105 netbook
run fine but, with some hungs an a slowly performance.
Anyway i keep moblin in my netbook to continue testing!
tks!

how to static ip work !!!

hp mini 1001tu

- wireless work compile new kernel use dell mini 9 instruction
- lan work

but all network can't use static ip address

this distro, did not install linux aplications, I try to install some an the SO told me that can not handle the installaion. some aplications was open office..

In all the rest this OS is really excelente I hope a better one

I think could be better with a easy way to get to our files on the HD

My netbook is a Eee 900HA, I have windows (because I need Visual Basic) and in othe partition Moblin.

I have a little pront some times and sess "your SO have problem" or some thing like that but It seems to be alright

Hi
I want to start out by saying really like what you are doing. Have Moblin installed on my eee PC 901 as only os. Little messages pop up stating app failure quite regular but nothing major. Previously could get no wireless if base station was set for both WPA and WPA2 but seems resolved and working just fine now.

Wondering about 3 things.

1: Moblin dosen't recognise second ssd on start up it has to be mounted. The machines original os (xandros) and Ubuntu based distros recognised and mounted it on start up. Would this be possible in Moblin?

2: "My Zone" is not editable. Would like to be able to decide what appears there. People might want to choose which tweets appear especially if they follow many. Also being able to choose which web sites appear would also be good and getting RSS feeds in there too.

3: "Zones" seems to lose what could be its most useful feature by not being able to set up zones to hold sets of apps or documents between sessions instead of just an app switcher which you have to navagate too.

Overall really enjoying using and watching the development of what looks like an excellant and usefull os.

Dug.

Same here. using basically a rebadged msi wind (advent). no wireless option at all. connects to ethernet fine- typing now from it.

I've tested last version of Moblin on MSI Wind U100 (rtl8187se wireless card) and Wi-Fi doesn't work. With previous versions everything was OK.

Hi, i have compaq mini 701ES that before beta 26th June works perfectly, (only ethernet, but with this, i had wifi working), and now, with this beta (26th june) ethernet not works, moblin cant detect my ethernet hardware (and then i cant make wifi works), any solution?

Thanks.

It works on my 300$ cheap netbook, but IM doesn't support yahoo messenger account?

Everything else seems to be alright.
Alot of program crashes though.
Wifi will say connecting and then disconnect.
Any way to fix this?

I've just tested moblin v2.0 beta on my ASUS EEE 901,installed on the 4GB SSD.
Things working:

Microphone
Speaker
Wireless
brightness function keys
camera
scrolling
volume function keys(not always)
suspend(not always)
Wi-fi function key(LED also works great)
Battery life(sometimes don't shows the battery)

Things not:

CPU scaling Key
bluetooth

The system is very buggy as a beta.

Why hold back? Some better support for various Centrino-based laptops with intel graphics would be more than welcome. Support for every intel wifi adapter that linux supports would be a nice touch as well.

And it worked great in my Asus EEE 1002HA :-). Amazing, everything ran fine, and the UI is simply spectacular!!

Of course, this is a beta preview, there are still a number of things missing, such as support for the most popular IM services, and also most of the social networks. But it's a start... and I have to say, this operating system will most likely succeed!

Has anybody installed Moblin 2.0 on HP 2133? How to do it? Are there any tweaks to do so?

Please help me!

I installed Moblin on my Acer Aspire One (8GB SSD/512MB Memory) after trying out the USB Live version. Getting around the UI seems easy enough and once I'd installed Firefox from the repositories I had a web-browser that I could use. I also installed AbiWord for simple Wordprocessing but not sure I'd use it over OpenOffice.

I've set up the machine as Dual Boot now with eeeBuntu and dependant on my needs, I can go to either environment. If I want anything more than simple web-browsing I choose eeeBuntu. Otherwise Moblin is the way to go.

One thing I have found is that I can't get it to 'remember' my last Wifi network connection. It'd be great if it auto-connected to the last live network connection so I don't have to go the network connection tool. Maybe I'm missing a trick here?

Other than that, I love it. It's definitely staying on my AA1 and am keen to see it improve.

Great work guys.

HI !!!!
i'm very suprised by this OS. i love it !!!!!!!!
it's only a beta but i'm very happy to install on my AA1.
there's some bugs but it's so easy to boot (few secondes) and very easy to use !!
unifortunately my 2 "lecteurs de carte"(sorry i'm french) doesn't work and my webcam too.
if anyone have a suggestion....
GREAT OS
CONGRATULATION FROM HAUTE SAVOIE !!
Gribouille

Hi guys, you are great, I just installed moblin on my sdhc and it works fine.
I have an EeePc 901. However it have some bugs, I know it's a beta but it's so beautiful that you forget that it's a beta so you pretend more! =P

well with this refresh the problems are the web browser, wifi it's ok but the web browser don't enter to google for example...
another problem it's the fluidity, with the first beta live version there was more fluidity, instead with this new refresh installed on a sdhc it seems to be more slow.
and the new problem it's the media player, when I zoom back images it freezes.

sorry for my English :(

saludos! ;)

The beta is really looking good now. Most of the bugs I found in the 19 May beta are fixed in the 7 June beta. I like the "weekly beta" cycle, gives me something to look forward to. Btw, is there a way to upgrade between betas? I'm thinking about dual booting and I'd hate to endanger my UNR install every week.

"Boot and Verify" still gives me the "checksum" error, no clue why. I managed to crash the network connection manager twice. The "time servers" GUI hung when I tried to enter a time server. Apart from that, everything else seemed to work. :)

Hi there,

just uploaded some screenshots of my recent Moblin install on the Asus Eee PC 900A and founded a Moblin Flickr Group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/moblin/

This is meant to be a meeting point for those who -like me- are less coders than users. Just to post screenshots of apps that you got up and running. Feel free to join!

My thoughts. This is promising but still some way off. The Linpus lite my son accidentally broke somehow at least worked. Wireless connects but is 80% reliable - last connected network should be automatically selected and restarted on boot . It's taken me time but the whole new clutter environment thing starts to make sense. The browser is more difficult to use than any other - the URL / search box (it's unclear what it is supposed to do) fails sometimes. I would prefer to click the top menu browser then find a google/other search box with flashing cursor as default.
The mouse action is twitchy. I installed Claws-mail (the only mail client available) several times but it did not start up. I like moblin generally but, for what it offers, it needs to speed up a bit and cover the basics a better before I can use it.
Best wishes for progress on a great idea.

Anyone know how to adjust brightness on Samsung NC10?

Moblin 2.0 is telling me “sorry, we don’t support modifying the brightness of your screen”

Also, how can I dual boot on this Netbook? I already have Windows 7 RC installed and wish to keep it.

Thank you.

Has anyone been able to get the wifi working on the U100??? Please let me know if you have and how you did it. I really enjoy the Moblin OS but is useless without internet access. I have also registered to receive the Jolicloud private Alpha but have not received an email yet. :(

Will wireless be coming to the EEE 901? It kind of makes my computer useless without it

Just wondering, since the intel chip is listed as supported, is it meant to be slow as hell? The interface is incredibly slow on my machine with a 945GMA graphics chip. I'm wondering if it's my machine or if it's a known fact the chip is too slow for the UI. If the latter is the case, it'd be nice if Composite could be turned off for Clutter ;-)

Clutter is super perfect in Moblin :)

PS: I had to flash the 'Dell MINI 9' BIOS into my Vostro A90 (the hardware is exactly the same). Otherwise the sound wasn't working.

I change the timezone, but the time stays the same. Every time I shut down and reboot I lose everything I have changed. Entered my contact details and they are gone. Happens everytime. What am I doing wrong?

Booting from USB key made from Windows. Is there a permission that needs to be changed?

Thanks.

Would be nice if Moblin managed to get Yahoo to release a Linux version of their messenger with voice and video.

Ok, maybe I am going crazy, but where is the power off/restart button?

which ones are best supported and are also well built?

It is very unfortunate that the calendar function is so basic. It's been a long time I have moved all my calendars to Google, keeping it in sync with my G1 phone as well as Lotus Notes calendar at work. The m_zone should be able to show your google calendars instead of this little crappy local application.

Hello,

very nice initiative. I have tried Moblin yesterday on my Acer Aspire One, using a USB live image and all was running ok.
I do appreciate a lot the user interface, it is however unfortunate that several times you would go back to a more basic looking X-application which breaks the integrity of the look and feel.

What it misses for me to become my default OS (today I use Apple's OS X on my AAO - after having tried Win XP, Win VIsta, and Ubuntu) :

• a "widget-like" approach to add new functionality and maintain a consistent look and feel
• my online life is not only Twitter - I'd like to get my status & feeds from Facebook and LinkedIn as well, next to Twitter and Last.fm
• why this browser choice ? I would have prefered Firefox, since I can then benefit from all the plug-ins. I should be easy to change the default browser

Will continue testing now...

i think your project points out one big problem: contrary to apple who controls software and hardware, you have to deal with a variety (we can say: a jungle) of hardware. you raised immense hope with your interface but you neglicted many drivers. in many ways you could have done better (rpm fedora drivers for dell mini 9 for instance) because your os is nothing without wifi. in my opinion (humble) you are still in alpha mode unless you think your os should run on no netbook at all. please provide us a new beta including drivers and hopes ! just because your project worth it.

I have tested Moblin for a couple of days now.
I really like it.

My test computer is a Asus Eee 1000H. Everything works fine except the sound, it works but it is very quiet even on full volume.

I hope it going to be more stable, so I can install Moblin for everyday use. I know it is a beta version, but I hope it is going to be PERFECT when it is finished.

I'm from Sweden so my English sux.

// SweSG

wow - this would be the perfect framework for a htpc project (dvb-c/s/s2). future gui is here! :) anyone interested?

I like it, it is VERY fast on the Lenovo S10.

The mouse pointer is maybe a bit too fast!

Installed in less than 5 min!

Screen very responsive, I like the way the "windows" close and open.

sound is working, screen res is at 1024x600

Only wired network "on" working, the Wifi, 3G and WiMax is greyed out.......hope they will fix this in the future

One question, is the JAVA runtime installed?

i have installed moblin on my acer aspire one.
for the everyday do i need:

• flash plugin, i cant install
• icq, skype and all another messenger plugins from pidgin
• browser -> no rightclick, missing strg + leftclick for new tabs and another strg + leftclick actions

please integrate this stuff yet, thx

this distro is great and all my friends love it but i go to install on my amd athlon dual core and no support for this chip. what is up with this. i know you want the atom processor for its capabilities please support this amd processor i want to get rid of vista on my laptop. on my desktop ubuntu works fine and have not regreted it. i want this distro on my laptop so vista user will be jealous.

According to Intel on this Slashgear article (http://tinyurl.com/o3x5nh), wifi should work on my Dell Mini-9. However, it does not. Anybody else have luck with it?
~/jt

I see a few people are having problems shutting down. To do this open a terminal and enter:
sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now
the sbin is required as this is not in the $PATH (this was added in Fedora 10)

Hi!

Very nice operating system, I really like it. I installed it on my friends Aspire One. Here are some things that I think would be great:

*More wireless encryptions support, like wpa enterprise and stuff, see gnome's networkmanager :)
*Wider support for social services, like MSN, AIM, Facebook, and so on
*More codecs by default or easy install, for mp3, flash and so on
*Shutdown/reboot-gui :)
*3G support for external and internal modems
*Better default synaptics features (?) like two-finger scrolling, and so on
*Perhaps another mouse theme, the current looks only kind-of good :P

Many of these stuff I am sure you are aware of, I mean, there already is a 3G button in the connection manager! :P

Now for the good stuff! I must say, you've done a great job. Moblin is very different, but fits the netbook purpose perfectly! Should be a default on every sold netbook. I like the way everything is integrated, and everything is very consistent (right word?). I will keep the system very up-to-date, and I feel like buying a netbook myself so I also can use it! :) Cheers from Sweden!

I tried Moblin on my Aspire One, it worked great for a beta distro.
A bit rough around the edges, a bit more work to be done, but in the right direction.
For me (I know it's beta) it needs more customization options.
Keep up the good work!

Booted live image off SD card. Runs wonderfully! (minus wireless, but I know this is beta).
My rig is definitely not a netbook or atom-based (it has a pentium core 2 duo T2330) but Moblin runs great on it! I can't wait for that release candidate!

Clever UI, ludicrous boot up time, and m_zone is nothing short of genius. Even from this slightly shaky beta, it's clear Moblin is on the right track. However, it will take the implementation of several social standards ( Facebook, AIM, MSN, etc ) before anyone less than an enthusiast will want to keep Moblin around. Seriously, ask your friends what their Jabber handle is and count the confused looks.

Put AIM in at least. ;)

I am a Cloud dweller and feel like projects like Splashtop and the vapor ware that is the gOS Cloud and now Moblin are the future. For me, I spend 98% of the time in a browser and like the simplicity, function, and ubiquity of cloud computing.

I stayed up until 1:30 last night playing with Moblin on my eeePC 901 and found the experience to be fun, but definitely beta. I will likely come back to Moblin when it gets a little more refined, but for every day function I had to take it off and put CrunchBang Linux back on my 901.

The concept of Moblin is fantastic. I had no trouble with Ethernet, but the wireless worked on the live USB, but not after I installed the OS. Also, the browser seemed to be inconsistent right now. I know it is beta, but I was hoping for a little better out of box experience. I did find some very helpful folks in the IRC last night who helped with installing Flash. I can't wait to see the next version of Moblin.

Good luck Moblin dev team and keep it going!

All up and running so far on Acer Aspire one. As mentioned before the browser pop up for the download gets stuck.
I also cant save any items like pictures ect using the web browser. I ended up using the mozilla browser in apps/internet to download flash and pics ect.

When are you going to support a persistent USB drive install so settings, program installs, etc are saved between boots? This is the number one way to test new distros, and you aren't giving us the tools to do it. As a result, many of the online netbook community are not testing your distro. Most of us use our netbooks too much to jeopardize our main hard drive with a beta distro, and this is one distro that can't really be tested properly on any old machine lying around the house. If I can't see how a distro behaves after the next boot after installing software, I haven't really tested the distro.

And yes, I looked at the process for using image creator to customize to get this, and frankly I can't justify spending the hours needed to learn that process when I'm still evaluating the distro.

The live-with-persistence image should be a readily available image available side by side with the full install image. From your own blog entries, support for this is already in place, so this should not be any hardship for you.

Additionally, your dd install instructions are not good - they make the rest of the memory on that usb drive totally inaccessible.

Thanks for your time, and good luck with the project -

Fun, very fun but, what can i do to shutdown your O.S ?

i tried this version from an usb key. compared to MIE it works as a rocket. wonderful so far but still no wifi. it seems to me it's not a driver problem but the way all network connection is dealt on the hp. i strangely don't have access to wired connection (the button is grey) and plugin an ethernet cable doesn't change anything to that.

i like moblin and will probably use it very soon, but i found a few things that will need to be fixed first. this is merely a list of some things i found while using moblin.

my computer is an eeepc1000heb that i bought at 'best buy' one month ago. i upgraded the ram to two gigs. i use linux mint.

issues i encountered:
1. my wireless mouse does not scroll anything except the internet browser. an example would be the applications>settings menu. (mouse is logitech)
2. the 'selected text' color in browser address bar is way too light in color. (theme issue i think)
3. there is no irc chat client(?) that i could find.
4. there is no 'restart/shutdown' button anywhere i could find. (i used terminal)
5. no user guide.
6. under power and brightness tab, shouldn't it be 'and' and not 'an'? (typo i figure)

these are just some of the little things i found 'wrong' and not meant to hurt anyone.

now, the things i really like...
-m_zone rocks! really cool layout and looks great!
-i like the bar at the top and the icons are really good. the effects are killer! although, i feel the date/time should be on the right.
-all the icons are really good looking and informative.
-i like the dark brown/grey but wish it could be customizable by user.
-i like the default blue wallpaper (energy) and the toys wallpaper.
-i like chrome but feel it needs more tweeking. minefield worked great.
-i am sure i can add deluge or transmission just didn't get to it. wife came home from work.

overall, i am very glad i checked this distro out. i will keep an i on it an keep using it. i am hoping to install it full time on my netbook. i used usb-imagewriter to install the downloaded image onto my usb drive.

have a great day!

However that's all I can say for now, because I'm downloading at 2600 b/s; there must be tons of people downloading it right now as well. There needs to be some mirrors.

What are the possibilities that we'll see support for free and open source network services in the future? I note that the two supported now are ones that have popular FLOSS alternatives (Identi.ca for Twitter, Libre.fm for Last.fm) -- was that on purpose? Should be easy to port.

Thx!