On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Don Robertson wrote:
On 08/01/10 19:58, Roy Britten wrote:
So, I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm quite keen
on getting a netbook / small formfactor notebook.
If you are willing to wait a while ... and maybe buy a hundred ... and take a
trip to Thailand ...
http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html
The video is pretty interesting too.
Linux Journal had a review of this thing...
http://alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
Apparently it has hackable hardware as well, although they weren't too
impressed by it's stability.
I suspect they just finding out that writing CPU portable C code is
hardish, and not many programmers do it properly.
Ah well, portability bugs are more often than not latent defects
anyway. So it's all Good for linux in general.
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