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Polywell MiniBox P5500C Compact Power PC
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| This system offers less than 1GB of memory,
| which is the bare minimum that any full-
| featured new computer should include. Whether
| this amount of RAM is optimal for you depends
| on the PC's operating system: Windows Vista
| and Apple's Mac OS X don't run well with less
| than 1GB, Windows XP is fine with 512MB and
| not too bad with 384MB, and Windows 98 is
| good with 256MB. Depending on the
| distribution, Linux can run with as little as
| 128MB, but most Linux users are better off
| with at least 512MB--and 1GB is better.
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http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/301921/overview/minibox_p5500c_compact_power_pc.html
The search for the true âOpen PCâ
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| I was fortunate enough this week to help
| conduct an interview with Frank Karlitschek
| who founded KDE-Look.org back in 2001, which
| has grown to become one of the biggest online
| communities for Linux. In 2007, Frank also
| went on to establish Open Desktop.org and its
| 35 communities and portals for desktop Linux.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014466o-2000458459b,00.htm?new_comment
Recent:
ARMing desktop Linux
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| For a brief time in 2008, Linux actually
| owned a segment of the desktop industry:
| netbooks. When netbooks first showed up,
| they ran Linux and nothing but Linux.
| Microsoft panicked and brought XP back
| from the dead, offering it for next to
| nothing to netbook vendors and thus
| successfully fighting off the Linux
| challenge.
|
| That was then; this is now. Today, Linux
| netbooks are still popular, though not as
| much as they once were. ARM-based
| netbooks, however, are on their way and,
| since these systems can't run Windows,
| Linux has the potential market all to
| itself. The real question is, will PC
| vendors choose to offer low-cost, less
| than $200 netbooks?
|
| [...]
|
| I quote Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: "Our
| license tells you what a netbook is. Our
| license says it's got to have a super-
| small screen, which means it probably has
| a super-small keyboard, and it has to have
| a certain processor and blah, blah, blah,
| blah, blah."
|
| That's so Microsoft. Once the company
| feels like it's on top, it immediately
| start dictating to the market how things
| are going to be from now on. With Linux
| still around, though, it doesn't have to
| be that way.
|
| I think though there is a market for full-
| powered netbooks at a $200 price point,
| and that means Linux. Ubuntu already runs
| on ARM, and I expect Google's Chrome
| operating system to run on ARM-powered
| systems.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14896/arming_desktop_linux
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