Tuesday, April 14, 2009

I'm hooked on Moblin and Puppy

Well, I've been using Puppy 4.1.2 on my Gateway, and Moblin on my AAO for a while now. Puppy on the Gateway has brought life back to a computer that should have been trashed. Not much else to say about it really. Moblin deserves a site of it's own for nearly everything about it. Moblin has the fastest boot time I've ever seen. 12 seconds flat. I like Ubuntu more, but I'd like to see Ubuntu do that. Ubuntu 9.04 is a lot faster booting, but nothing close to Moblin. So far, I haven't found much to complain about Moblin. The only problem so far is no flash downloads. At least I haven't been able to find any or make any work.
Nearly everything about Moblin is fast. Internet seems faster, programs launch faster, and the boot times make not having flash worth it. I'm thinking about trying it on my Acer Aspire 4720Z whenever I can fix it and when Moblin is no longer in Beta testing anymore. Oh, if anyone has a spare keyboard and/or battery that will work in it, e-mail me at my new e-mail, andy@thevintageattic.net. Anyway, I'm still learning commands for Puppy and Moblin so more later.Link

1 comment:

  1. I love moblin. I started using it for everyday use on my Eee Pc 1000H. I know it's beta, but hey, I'm a beta tester.

    The only thing I'd want is Moblin to be Ubuntu based. So I could roll Ubuntu packages on it. People like Ubuntu packages of TextRoom more.

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