[plug] Eee

[Paul Antoine]

Indeed, and what a great product Tivo is!  Not that most consumers 
realise it's running Linux... however it did lead to great hackability :-)

We had 2 when living in the US and it beats the *hell* out of the Foxtel 
IQ piece of foetid dingo's kidneys. A quick hard drive upgrade and we 
had 120hrs of storage and an ethernet card meant remote programming. Not 
bad in 2001 :-)

P.

Richard Meyer wrote:
> Not that the Eee is the first LLinux product, there's also
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo (Tivo).
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:29 +0900, Paul Antoine wrote:
>> When people talk of the so-called lack of penetration of desktop Linux 
>> I'd like them to remember just how far Linux and FOSS have come.
>>
>> For those who don't remember the switch from vendor-specific proprietary 
>> OS's to Unix I would point out that it took some 14+ years after Unix 
>> was written for it to begin to be considered a "serious" server 
>> platform.  Software changes fast, but IT departments do not ;-)
>>
>> I remember wanting to use Linux as the basis for IT products back in 
>> 1994/1995 at which point people thought I was crazy... now a consumer PC 
>> with broad distribution and strong marketing relies on Linux!
>>
>> 2008 will be a great year yet for FOSS I suspect,
>> P.
>>
>>
>> Garry wrote:
>>>
>>> Saw the Linux powered Eee in today's West Australian..
>>>
>>> In a Myer advertisement.. $499..
>>>
>>> 8^)
>>>
>>> Garry
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