<Taipei IDF> - October 20, 2008 - Red Flag, the leading Linux operating system vendor for Asia, pre-releases their Moblin platform based Linux OS for netbooks -Midinux Mobile Netbook Edition, which takes advantage of Moblin technologies to deliver 25% longer battery life, 17% faster boot performance, and interactive Internet and media experience on netbook devices. This is a meaningful progression following  Red Flag’s success in the Mobile Internet Device market.

Moblin is an open source project hosted at moblin.org that implements a Linux software stack optimized for Intel® Atom™ processor based devices. And, provides a common Linux code-base that lowers risk and accelerates time-to-market for OSVs and ISVs to create software products optimized for Intel Atom processor based platforms. 

Integrating Haansoft’s Thinkfree and based on Midinux Edition, Midinux Netbook Edition is ready to provide a fully optimized Linux OS with interactive product experience on netbooks in terms of easy-to-use User Interface, rich Internet and media applications, complete basic applications, great power management, affordable price and good customization. .
 
  
Thanks to the sharp growth and demand of consumers buying their first devices in emerging markets and incremental multi-devices in mature markets, the netbook is a product category that will likely jump-start a large market in the near future. Asianux foresees a huge market demand and opportunities for netbooks and is ready to serve ecosystem partners and end-users with an optimized solution and a strong local support.

“The Asianux Mobile Netbook Edition will bring exciting new experiences to users on Intel® Atom™ processor based netbooks,” said Ram Peddibhotla, open source business director, Intel Corporation.  “This really shows the flexibility of Moblin to serve multiple segments with minimal cost and effort.”