On 7 March 2012 13:21, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/03/12 13:08, Liam Proven wrote: >> It's a *very* low-spec £25 computer. 256MB of non-expandable RAM, >> no local storage or storage interface, just an SD card, a very >> low-powered low-end ARM core, and a proprietary GPU with >> proprietary drivers, even a proprietary bootloader. >> > > Sounds delightful! :D
Hey, it's a hella cool toy for £15 (standalone model) or £25 (with LAN). They sold out the initial production run in about 3min, at 6AM, and there have been 7 orders a second ever since. Looks like they will sell several million units. My hope is that they do really well and it results in a second version which is a bit more powerful and a bit more open. >> It is roughly equivalent to an 11 or 12 year old PC: a Pentium II >> 300MHz with a quarter of a gig of RAM. It is not a suitable system >> for running Ubuntu on, unless you want to give people a very bad >> impression. > > You could install GNOME 2 instea.. oh wait.. Ha! Indeed. I think someone is working on a Lubuntu version, or at least a custom LXDE port. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
