The Moblin Weblog

Have you seen clutter? No, I’m not talking about my office, but rather, a new open source project that’s going to be part of Moblin 2 (due next year, probably in the spring).

The Clutter project is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces.  You can see a demo of what Intel’s looking at doing on the Moblin Project site — check it out! It’s like the iPhone and Android, only more so.

Computing is global - and so is Intel’s Moblin initiative. The chipmaker is partnering with the Taiwan government and industry groups to build a Mobile Device Open Source Development Center on the island.

According to the announcement,

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini announced that Intel has signed an agreement with the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to jointly establish an enabling centre for Moblin, open source software and applications optimized for Intel Atom processor-based devices. New software and applications are needed to deliver a richer, on-the-go Internet experience on the next generation of connected devices including Atom-based mobile Internet devices, netbooks, nettops and in-vehicle-infotainment systems.

The announcement continues,

With Intel and the MOEA’s support, the Moblin Enabling Center’s laboratory and its engineers will train and consult to device and software vendors, resulting in faster time to market for Moblin-based devices powered by Intel Atom processors. Intel’s support of the center includes engineering talent, software development resources and software contributions to moblin.org.