![]() ![]() ![]() This is but one of many cautionary tales on the dangers of outsourcing components. To be fair, I highly doubt that Nokia specifically sought out the awful GMA 500 for their netbook. If you can get a 3G data connection with your SIM card (I couldn’t), then Jolicloud is definitely your best bet for the Booklet. That Jolicloud works with the GMA 500 is no small feat as I wrote yesterday it required an almost Herculean effort to make that happen. This includes all but one of the distros that have driven the netbook revolution to date: ![]() Having the GMA 500 onboard the Nokia Booklet means that it cannot run most Linux distributions in its native screen resolution of 1280×720. Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo) graphics on Linux: a precise and comprehensive summary as to why you’re screwedĪnd perhaps the biggest condemnation of the GMA 500 comes from its very maker Intel’s own Moblin project doesn’t support it.How To Kick Your Friends in the Face: GMA500.How the Linux community feels about the GMA 500 can be summed up in these two posts: That flaw is the Intel GMA 500 graphics chip. There’s no point, really, as the Booklet 3G has a fatal flaw that prevents it from running the best desktop and netbook operating systems out there. There will be no more testing of Linux distributions on Nokia’s new netbook. ![]()
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