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The Challenge and Opportunity of Moblin & Android on Netbooks

Stephen LimLinpus Technologies, Inc.

Aug 16, 2009

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Something We Are Watching

Application Stores Be More Popular– Apple, Google, Blackberry, Nokia(Ovi), MS, ...– App Compatibility Issues– Profit Reallocation Among Players In Supply-

ChainHow will Private Stores Change Linux

Desktops?– GNOME/KDE Are Losing Their Positions?– New APP/UI Standards Being Created?– How About GNOME Open Store?

How will Big Players Change Linux?

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Something We Are Watching (continued)

Reality of On Line Apps Through Clouds– Trade Offs b/w Client OS and Clouds– W/L Comm and Cheaper Bandwidth Bring Thin

Client Computing Closer To Main StreamEcosystem As a Significant Competition

Factor– Company Wins → Ecosystem Wins– Leverage Non Profit Communities

More User Friendly UI w/ Fancy 3D Effect– Intel's UX/Clutter

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Android Architecture

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Moblin Architecture

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A Few Instant-On Solutions

Phoenix's HyperspaceDevice VM's SplashtopXandros' PrestoCorel's InstantOn

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Linpus Instant On - Quick OS

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Introduction of Linpus Quick OS

Able to Run APPs After 3-Sec Boot UpRunning Popular APPs Quickly w/o Waiting

Long Time OS BootingBrowser, VoIP (Skype), IM, Media Player,

Games, ...

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LL Lite Architecture

Linux Kernel & Drivers

Display Power Management Device Drivers Platform Support

Network Interface

Libraries & App Services Glib

DBusFlashHAL

Cairo Pango

ATK

OpenGL

X.OrgGStreamer

PythonSQLite WebKit

OpenCore

Android Runtime

Core Libraries Dalivik VM

Android Application Framework

QT Clutter 3DGTK+

UI Services

IO Interfaces File system Storage

GNOMEXFCE

UI Interface

Applications Web Browser Email Media Player Instant Message

KDE

SGL

SSL

NormalMIE

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Intel UX

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LL Moblin Roadmap

Q2/'08 Q3/'08 Q4/'09 Q1/'10 Q2/'10 Q3/'10

every 6 months as a release cycle

LL Lite 1.2

LL Lite 1.3

LL Lite 2.0

In order to meet market demand, a new LL Lite version is released every 6 months.

Moblin 2.0Compliant

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Some Tasks We Are Working

UI/Desktop Related Middleware– For Easy UI Customization– Easy Migration of Different D/T APPs– Easy Fancy Programming

Installation & On Line Update– Patch & Driver/System Upgrade, New APPs

InstallationImproving Server Capability & Capacity

– Downloading sizes keep ramping in the past– More than 20 download sites

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UI Modes for Various User Groups

Easy Mode

Mode

Young users with ages 25~30. Most are social networking heavy users

Linux experts, professional users in specific domains like science

Entry level computer users

Target UsersEmphasis

Normal Mode

Live Desktop Mode

Aspire One, Eee PC, Android

KDE, GNOME

HP MIE, Intel UX

Example

Easy to use

Complete desktop

Internet APPs Centric

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On Line Update Screen Shot

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LL Lite 1.2 UI w/ Clutter

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Live Desktop Mode – LL Lite 1.3

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3G Modems Support List (parts)

Option

Huawei

Slim Com

Qisda

ZTE

Vendor

Bandrich C100/C120/C150/C170

MF676

H20/H20-D/H21

Slim 700

E169/E172/E220/E270/E620/E800/EM770

ICON 225, iCON 401

Model

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