Midlinux 2.0 on a Samsung Q1U

Published by rodfather on October 18, 2007 10:07 pm under Gadgets, umpc

Clayne Robison of Intel got his hands dirty and installed Midlinux 2.0 Beta 5 on his Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC.  What’s interesting is it comes with a browser called Coolfox.  Mozilla based perhaps?  He even was able to get Skype working. 

 

I got a copy of Midinux 2.0 Beta 5 the other day, so I took the plunge and blasted the OS that came pre-installed on my Q1Ultra. Installation was relatively painless, although I wished that there was a little more flexibility when it came to choosing which packages to install. But then, that’s only because I’ve installed Linux a few times and like that flexibility. If I had never installed Linux before, I probably would be glad that I didn’t have to choose which packages to install.

This is an exciting time for Linux on the small devices.  With the announcement of the Nokia N810, the push for Linux applications received another boost. 

With Maemo, Ubuntu Mobile, MIDINUX, OLPC, Pepper OS, and the Asus Eee PC, there’s a lot of development going forward for small, low cost, low powered internet devices.

With Menlow and Moorestown coming around the corner for MID’s, it’s kind of ironic the UMPC is the test subject for Midlinux.  A bit of a sad swan song ain’t it?

Hopefully, there will be some Menlow/Mooretown devices with a 7″ touchscreen with great battery life and barely enough power to run Windows.  Perhaps Core 2 Duo based UMPC’s?  Or is it the end and everything will be 5″ or less MID’s running Linux/OSX?

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    [...] Rodfather is pointing to an interesting post over on the Intel site.  Clayne Robinson of Intel installed the Midlinux 2.0 Beta 5 on a Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC.  Like Rodfather says, there sure are a lot of cool things going on in the Linux arena. I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface on what we are going to be seeing in the next few months.  Wonder where we’re going to be sitting a year from now – how many Linux ‘small’ devices are going to be out there?? [...]

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