On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:14:04PM -0700, larry price wrote:
> I suspect it's not the kernel he's talking about, it's the graphical
> subsystems (GNOME,KDE) etc. that he's talking about.
Obviously he's looking at the wrong graphical subsystems then. OPIE has
such a subsystem targetted to such a hardware configuration right now.
> For the purposes which it is intended to serve (as an educational
> platform) the OLTP project looks like an admirable engineering
> compromise, and it doesn't look like they are letting themselves be
> distracted by cool shit (like the hand crank which is a cool idea but
> not particularly useful in the context intended)
The hand crank isn't that expensive, but it is a distraction from making a
useful computer cheaply.
> myself i wish that one of the big manufacturers would realize that a
> rugged text only terminal with a n < 150 USD price point would in
> fact fill a gap in the market.
> Think something like a morph between a Texas Instruments calculator
> and a one of the old Tandy 100 laptops. only with wifi and usb ports.
Even a low-resolution graphical display does nicely there.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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