I've downloaded the moblin 2.0 image, I tried to use win32-image-writer from luanchpad.net which I mentioned in previous blog to write the image into USB disk, but failed, maybe it jsut suite for ubuntu notebook version ? then I copy the image into that USB disk and use another laptop with linux, 'dd' command always can be truthed.:)

* Bootup

Moblin is booting, I hearded that the 'fast boot' techology has been included in the moblin release as default, Yeah, It's very fast, about 10s, with USB disk (it's a compressed filessytem with squash filesystem):

[root@localhost moblin]# df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/root 2.5G 1.5G 938M 62% /
tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /var/lock
tmpfs 4.0M 68K 4.0M 2% /var/run
tmpfs 499M 6.1M 493M 2% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 666M 666M 0 100% /mnt/live
/dev/sdc1 1.9G 1.6G 378M 81% /media/disk

* User interface

The moblin 2.0 user interface is amazing, powered by clutter, very fast.

There is an automatic hide panel in the top. from left to right, clock, m_zone, status (twitter, yes, it is), pepole, internet, media, pasteboard, applications, zone (application switcher), power & brightness, volume, internet connection status.

* Connectivity

Wifi works fine, also come with WiMAX, 3G, new and clean network managerment. But I cann't setup my bluetooth wireless mouse, use 'hcitool dev' can see the bluetooth dev, but here is not utility to setup it (connect my mouse or send file etc).

* prons, cons

Localization is not ready, That's why I cann't type this blog entry in Chinese.
Media function is poor, I guess only ogg is supported, I tried to play a rm file, failed. I found it just a 'playqueue come soon', it's a mockup. :)
Browser: widget in web page is not themed