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Intel Switches From Ubuntu To Fedora For Mobile Linux

Posted by timothy on from the all-good-all-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a report on heise, Intel is switching from using Ubuntu to the Fedora Project for the second version of the Intel supported Mobile & Internet Linux Project Moblin, citing a desire to use RPM package management." So far, of the various subnotebooks I've been glancing at over shoulders at OSCON, though, most of the ones with an easily identified operating system seem to be running Ubuntu.

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  1. Dependencies by xaositects · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope Intel has a good rehab program in mind to tackle the dependency hell...

  2. Well... Um... by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I keep turning this over in my head, and keep coming back to the same scenario:

    Steve Ballmer, in the Throne Room of his secret volcano lair: You begin to understand the true nature of my diabolic plan: If we cannot make Windows better, we will make Linux WORSE!

    Anonymous Intel lackeys: Yes, master!

    Steve Ballmer: Now go! Take these Fedora DVDs and install them on every Linux computer you find! Soon the foolish rebels will be BEGGING for Vista!

    Steve Ballmer rips a bolted-down chair from the floor and holds it above his head, cackling devilishly, while his lieutenants and lackeys scramble for the exits.

    ==
    (...with apologies to all three happy Fedora users...)

    --
    How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
  3. Re:Oh, the fools... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not a maintainer of any package in debian, But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

    There, fixed that for you.

  4. Re:7yrs with Linux and dead set on DEB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    he/she says this as he/she is still compiling last weeks php update

  5. Re:Oh, the fools... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Eric S Raymond semi-batshit libertarian crank programmer (of which there are far far too many in the open source/free software movement)

    http://www.catb.org/~esr
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond