http://lwn.net/Articles/326738/Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times)
The
New York Times reports
that Intel will be handing control of the Moblin distribution (recently
reviewed by LWN) to the
Linux
Foundation. "Intel will maintain strong control over the software
since it employs the top Moblin developers. But that could change over
time
as outside developers show interest in the software."
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 1, 2009 22:36 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] I
can't find anything funny about this.
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 1, 2009 23:37 UTC (Wed) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link] Well
its sorta funny that the Linux Foundation members are now competeing in
the distro space with the Linux Foundation.
This is not a joke...<eom> Posted Apr 2, 2009 2:26 UTC (Thu) by yanli (subscriber, #57542) [Link] This
is truth.
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 2, 2009 4:03 UTC (Thu) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] I
hope there's better coverage than this out there somewhere. ("In this
case, stewardship means access to the code of Moblin, which is an
open-source operating system based on Linux."? C'mon.) Reading between
the lines, it sounds like Intel wants to move Moblin towards being a
community-owned distro and one of the steps is to get it out of
intel.com (compare RedHat vs. Fedora Foundation, etc.), but that's just
a guess...
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 2, 2009 12:14 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] It
is probably designed to encourage more people to contribute to
Moblin. They actually doing some neat stuff, but I suppose it had the
appearance of being some internal Intel-only thing for Intel-only
machines.
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 3, 2009 1:02 UTC (Fri) by dkite (subscriber, #4577) [Link] From
what I can see, someone may correct me, they are using Ubuntu and
Fedora repositories for the bulk of their stuff, with some customization for the desktop, kernel and startup routines. To put together a Moblin image, you point to the repositories that you want to use. And I think, not sure here, that the intel only stuff comes from the ubuntu and fedora repositories. Not the main ones of course, but both projects have repositories for specific platforms or by particular developers. Derek
Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System (NY Times) Posted Apr 2, 2009 18:00 UTC (Thu) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] Small correction...There is no Fedora Foundation which exists as a separate entity from Red Hat that manages the Fedora Project activities. -jef |
