SUSE-Moblin for MIDs and Netbooks?
Another Linux software distributor has announced that they will contribute towards the Moblin stack. Novell, who has the SUSE Linux brand, made an announcement yesterday (although I can’t find anything on the Novell press pages.)
Novell announced today that it will participate in and contribute to the Moblin open source project. Novell will start immediately contributing to Moblin’s specific sub-projects, such as its desktop compositing manager and multimedia abstraction layer. As a result of Novell’s participation, Moblin will be able to leverage Novell’s large community of contributors and many existing open source projects. Novell will promote Moblin within these projects and continue its role in ensuring future innovations for all Linux* desktops, including Mobile and Connected Devices.
We now have Canonical, Xandros, Linpus, gOS, Wind River and Novell in the Moblin space. You could say that it’s great news and that it will make developing software for millions of MIDs and Netbooks easier but from what I’ve seen so far, every distributor, every OEM and every carrier appears to want it their own way so they can develop solutions at their own speed and put their own control on it. You could say that too many cooks are going to spoil the broth!
