Larry Ellison's new company doing a 'thin client', the NIC (http://www.thinknic.com) has shipped the unit finally. I bought one weeks ago, got it the other day, and hacked up a bash shell on it the first night, and lo and behold, the OS is based on Debian. So it says in the kernel and boot among other places (grin). Joey, another derived system to add to the Potato press release... It's entirely CD based, with a 4 meg ide flash for storing preferences and settings. It's very cool, and for $199, possible one of the cheapest ways to buy a computer or x-terminal right now. It runs Netscape 4.73 very well, and has ssh, telnet, vnc, irc and more. A unofficial 'fan/hack' site is at http://www.bestkungfu.com/nicfit and there are a few mailing lists already (@ egroups.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
