== What is Moblin ==
Moblin is a major initiative launched by Intel targeting the netbook
market. Intel is the upstream and has developed some very appealing code
for Moblin and it has gathered lots of momentum in the market.
Moblin is not a distribution itself (but does have a reference implementation based on Fedora), but instead relies on OSV's (like
Canonical and others) to support, package and ship Moblin on their
distributions. So Canonical decided to release a version of Moblin
running on Ubuntu (Ubuntu Moblin Remix) such that we could
give users the freedom to try out Moblin on our great platform that
they know and love 

== What is Ubuntu Moblin Remix ==
 * Moblin 2.1 preview release running on Ubuntu 9.10
 * Developer focused, as based on an "preview" (i.e. not final) version of Moblin
 * Moblin's rpms were converted to debian packages
 * Some packages in made it to "universe" for Karmic, others in PPA https://edge.launchpad.net/~moblin/+archive/ppa
 * Ubuntu Moblin Remix image available for download here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-moblin-remix/releases/karmic/release/ubuntu-moblin-remix-9.10-moblin-remix-i386.iso
 * Bug tracking: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-moblin-remix
 * Ubuntu Forums for Moblin: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=376

== Overview of Moblin UI and Components ==
=== Moblin toolbar ===
  * My Zone- main home screen. Sections for calendar entries, favorites, recent docs, tweats from twitter, other social media information
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  * Status - user's online/offline status for various social media sites
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  * People - user's friends from Empathy
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  * Internet - quick launch of url's, shows thumbnails of open tabs and pinned web pages
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  * Media - quick launch/search of recently opened media files, playqueue display
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  * Pasteboard - visual paste board
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  * Applications - launcher for applications, shown by category, searchable
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  * Zones - zone switcher shows active windows in all the zones (equivalent to workspaces)
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 * Web Services - this panel is where the user configures specific information for enabled web services.
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=== Status Area ===
 * Power - battery life monitor
 * Sound - volume adjustment and display
 * Network - Networking UI (carrick), talks to Connman backend, support for wired, wifi, 3G and wimax 
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=== Applications ===
 * Moblin Web Browser - uses mozembed with clutter wrapper (clutter-mozembed), moving to Firefox 3.5 in Moblin 2.1
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 * Moblin Media Player - clutter based media player, talks to gstreamer back-end
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=== Other major components ===
 * Mutter - clutter enabled window manager, Moblin Toolbar is a mutter plugin
 * mojito - daemon and API for social networking
 * bognor-regis - media playback daemon
 * bickley - media meta-data engine 

== How are Ubuntu Moblin Remix and Ubuntu Netbook Remix different? ==
Ubuntu Netbook Remix was developed by Canonical well before Moblin. Canonical continues to develop
and support UNR going forward. We are testing and supporting many
hardware models out of the box with UNR and will continue
to develop UNR past Karmic. UNR is quite popular, intuitive and well
integrated in our platform. 
 * UNR is well integrated with the Ubuntu platform (gnome, Ubuntu One, notifications, etc..)
 * UNR user interface is straight forward, simple to use
 * UNR has been shipping commercially for over 1 year, it's well tested and proven

== What vendors are shipping Ubuntu Moblin? ==
 * Dell Mini 10v, 9.04 based Moblin
 * Available for download here: http://en.community.dell.com/wikis/linux/ubuntu-9-04-moblin-remix-developer-edition.aspx

== How do I get more information about Moblin? ==

 * Intel upstream for Moblin http://www.moblin.org
 * Bugtracking http://bugzilla.moblin.org
 * #moblin on freenode