Update: Lots of ultra mobile PC info coming in from the IDF today. More announcements expected during the keynotes tomorrow morning (at around 0200GMT) No sleep for me over the next 48 hours ;-)
I’ve just read about this in the Intel IDF PDFs that are to be presented next week.
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Its all open source. Wow! This is big news. Loads more info in the PDF here.
“Attractive to user” with “special effects” and “finger friendly icons.” This is good news. There’s even a hint about the chipset – Intel 915. An open source driver has been created. Look at the images. Its looking very Maemo like!
The new distro will have a 500MB footprint, will support power-saving features, boot time is shown as 18 seconds on one of the slides.
There’s a GPS application,
Does this mean that one of the four devices next weeks is going to be Linux based?
