Linux Foundation to Host Moblin (Liveblog)

Imad Sousou, Director of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel, explains the decision to have the Linux Foundation host the Moblin project.

• "Big corporations are not good shepherds of Open Source"
• "The Linux Foundation provides a vendor neutral forum where the project and its developer community can thrive"
• Despite giving up control, Intel will actually be dedicating more resources to Moblin moving forward, not less.
• There will be no disruption to the Moblin project
• Moblin was created because Intel want every OS to run the best on Intel platforms.  The Atom processor was the impetus.
• What's ahead in Moblin 2

• Fastboot:
  today: 5 secs
  goal: 2 secs
  
  
• Next generation UI's
  widget toolkits are not the right answer.
  animation frameworks might be.  Intel likes "Clutter", which "allows you to develop apps using gaming technology".
  
  
• Connection management using Connman