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Linux is obese too - more on the $100 laptop

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
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[url]http://news.com.com/Negroponte+Slimmer+Linux+needed+for+100+laptop/2100-7346_3-6057456.html?tag=nefd.lede[/url]

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  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Saying "Linux is obese" is like saying "humans are obese." Unlike Windows, Linux comes in a massive variety of distros, each designed for a different purpose and each with a different footprint. Also unlike Windows, a GNU--based operating system such as Linux is very easy to trim to your required needs. Witness, for example, the live cds that fit an entire full--featured distro (with window manager and office apps included) on less than a single CD, or the rescue kits that fit on less than a floppy disc and include not just the kernel but a huge number of console tools.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    Hey now, I'm just reporting the truth. No need to put your kiwi sping on it!
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    But it ain't the truth! It's LIES!
  • PSI-KILLERPSI-KILLER Needs help
    We need a genius to design an OS that only takes up too 500 bytes or 1 meg only. One spectacularly condensed coded line.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Oh, oh! DOS!
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PSI-KILLER [/i]
    [B]We need a genius to design an OS that only takes up too 500 bytes or 1 meg only. One spectacularly condensed coded line. [/B][/QUOTE]

    You mean...like linux? :p
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Nono. Linux is fat! DOS is the way of tomorrow!
  • TridentTrident Ranger
    Why not just have the OS on a chip on the board?
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Hard to upgrade, but otherwise good idea..
  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
    [B]Hard to upgrade, but otherwise good idea.. [/B][/QUOTE]
    It's isn't hard to flash your BIOS or EFI, so what would make the upgrade so difficult?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Trident [/i]
    [B]Why not just have the OS on a chip on the board? [/B][/QUOTE]

    MacOS used to be done like that. The limitation there is the size of the OS. However, when magnetic memory or molecular memory or whatever no-power-needed-to-keep-data memory makes it to being a mainstream replacement of hard drives gets here, chances are things will sort of move back in that direction again.
  • JamboJambo Scriptkiddie
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by PSI-KILLER [/i]
    [B]We need a genius to design an OS that only takes up too 500 bytes or 1 meg only. One spectacularly condensed coded line. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Workbench?
  • AkrovahAkrovah Ranger
    They could use a flash memory chip. Needs no power and they are starting to get up into a couple of gigs for an okay price, if not incredibly cheap yet. That should be enough for pretty much any os, and would still give the user the option of changing os's since flash is erasable and writable.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    They are using flash.
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