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While still in beta form, the software received rave reviews by visitors at the event. Netbooks and nettops are clearly hot topics and there is a lot going on in the space. In fact, there has been great press around the potential for Moblin, which you can check out here, here, here and here. Also, our friends at Moblin.org, interviewed director of Client Preloads, Guy Lunardi and Novell's alliances manager, Mark Longwell,on Novell's involvement in the project. See that story here.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation was also present sharing the foundation's perception of the new economics that netbooks and nettops are introducing. In fact, the Linux Forum was particularly well attended.

Stay tuned for more to come from Novell on Moblin.

The beta release and packages will also conveniently be made available at openSUSE, giving the openSUSE community members a front row seat to check out the new user interface and all the functionality on top of openSUSE 11.1. (Caution: This is not a final release, and should be considered a technology preview only. You should install this release only on a testing machine. This will delete all data on the target machine's hard drive.)

Novell has worked closely with Intel to bring this innovative and completely new user experience to customers, developing e-mail, windows management and multi-media applications optimized to run on netbooks with Moblin v2. In fact, the Moblin operating system has been designed from the ground-up to meet the demands of today's mobile computing users and it's perfectly tailored to the netbook form factor.

With this visually interesting, highly discoverable and intuitive user interface, Moblin promises to change the face of desktop computing. To see more Moblin, check out these screenshots of this revolutionary desktop interface.

Customers are looking for ways to be more flexible and save money. Using Linux offers a great solution – but there are still some questions. For example: Linux OS might save me money, but isn't it hard to use? Can end users in my company be as productive with Linux? Isn't it easier for me to purchase laptops or desktops with Windows? Watch Grant Ho's latest video for answers to these common questions.

In this short video, Grant Ho, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Novell, dispels some myths about the Linux desktop, provides some interesting facts about Linux adoption and gives viewers some perspective on why Linux on the desktop is growing and could be right for them.

Check back for more videos from Grant soon.