Moblin alpha 2 – Lenovo S10
I just tried out Moblin alpha 2 on the Lenovo S10 and while Moblin is optimized for netbooks, it doesn’t seem to be optimized for the S10.
The Good: After installing to my hard drive it boots fast. There’s no GDM login screen so it takes about 15 seconds from the time you press the on button until the XFCE desktop comes up (this is with an OCZ SSD, not the hard drive it came with). Wired networking works.
The Bad: Wireless doesn’t work out of the box. Also the screen seems a little fuzzy. I’m sure a little tweaking could fix it but the little I tried didn’t seem to help. The most disappointing thing was that even with 2.6.29rc7 and rc8 kernels the internal mic doesn’t work.
I may come back and try this one out again later but for now, I’m going to keep distro hopping on the S10.
