With Moblin 2, the platform will feature "Fast Boot," with a goal of reducing boot time to two seconds. It currently is five seconds. For UI development, Moblin developers favor animation frameworks. The Clutter technology has been selected for this purpose. "It's one of probably the best animation frameworks that we have seen on any operating system," featuring physics and 3D capabilities said Sousou.

Also planned for Moblin 2 is a connection manager called Conman, offering support for capabilities such as voice and WiFi.

Technologists serving on a panel pertaining to the Linux kernel Thursday morning noted other developments, such as Linux next.

"[Linux next] is designed to be a preview of the next release of the Linux kernel," said Andrew Morton, lead kernel maintainer, in an interview at the event.

"It's been running for about a year, it's updated every day," Morton said.