Re: [News] Linux-Based $100 Laptops Ready Before Vista?

[Scott W <d38dm8nw81k1ng@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Smith said:
> In article <1255876.RCFuOTveXR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > | The $100-laptops, which are designed for rough usage, will be Linux-based
> > | and have a 500 MHz processor, a 128MB of DRAM, and a 500MB flash memory.
>
> Any benchmarks on these?  I'm curious how long a kernel build takes.
> (Recall that being able to modify the OS was one of the criteria they had
> for this, so presumably people will be rebuilding kernels on them).;

i'd reckon they'd use a cross compiler method to compile the kernel on a 
faster machine before putting it on. either that or just compile the 
kernel on one of these machines and copy it over (it'd probably only 
take a one-shot deal of 2 hours tops)