Australian tech news site APC Magazine has published a photo and screenshot gallery of Red Flag Software's “MIDLinux” distro for “mobile Internet devices” (MIDs). The gallery includes a photo of the Red Flag's Linux development team (pictured at left).

Intel yesterday revealed its vision for MIDs — small devices with 4- to 6-inch screens, running an appliance-like Linux OS. At the same time, the chip giant announced that Red Flag had created a “MIDLinux” distribution specially for the pocketable devices. Based on Asianux, Red Flag's MID distro features Maemo-like touches such as a desktop-like graphics stack based on X, GTK, Matchbox, and the Hildon framework.

MIDLinux gallery thumbnails
(Click above images to visit the gallery; source: APC Magazine)
The APC Magazine screenshot gallery suggests that MIDLinux has a slick, animated interface built around an application launcher with large, finger-friendly icons. Reliance on the Hildon application framework results in more than a passing resemblance to Nokia's Linux-based Internet tablets, gallery captions suggest.

The gallery shows applications such as Google Maps, a document writer with optional on-screen keyboard, an email reader, messaging client, movie player, RSS reader, PDF viewer, image viewer, Outlook-like calendar, calculator, and memory game. The gallery can be found here.

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