Midinux 2.0
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007Intel has announced this year that Midinux, an Redflag-based Linux distribution, will be featuring its Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and UMPC’s (Ultra-Mobile PC’s). Intel is thus planning to embrace an open source model for the implementation of it’s operating system. The choice of using an Asian Linux distribution might be tactically smart: Asia (especially Japan and South Korea) is known to adopt new technological innovations much faster than other parts of the world. Additionally, featuring language support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English will be a great advantage in the MID market. However, competitors are not that far behind: Google has announced few days ago that they will be releasing a first version of the Android SDK on November 12th. Android is a complete mobile phone software stack that includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone. Additionally, unlike Midinux so far, Android will be made available as open source via the Apache v2 license.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any available source code or downloadable ISO image so far.
See some comments on Midinux here:
- Midinux 2.0 on a Q1Ultra by Clayne Robison (Intel)
- Intel to unveil “mobile internet devices” — Red Flag Linux with iPhone-style interface by Ashton Mills
- moblin.org an umbrella open source project focused on the development of Linux for Intel-based devices
- Red Flag MIDINUX on greghaspants2.wordpress.com