Re: Anybody interested?

Actually, this isn't a For Sale posting. I'm just wondering if the basic idea is of interest to our community. I'm one of those strange people who thinks a phone should be a phone; I don't have any desire to hold a PC up to my ear (or to have one of those Borg implants). At the same time, laptops are not always the best solution. So while I was looking for a Linux desktop machine to play with and at the same time trying to find a better traveling PC, I ran across the ASUS Eee PC, and I'm hooked.

The 7" screen is small, and the keyboard is a little cramped (though surprisingly usable thanks to very nice tactile feedback). As a true PC, it's a lot better than a Blackberry and it's running a pretty standard Xandros Linux (tweaked for the solid-state drive), which means you can get most Debian packages (e.g., tn5250).

Joe

Joe Pluta wrote:

Would anybody be interested in a small, light secondary machine that runs a full Linux distro (complete with office and remote desktop) and can also run 5250 and Citrix, with Ethernet and WiFi built in, and that can be tethered to your mobile phone, for $350? It's only got 512MB and a 4GB solid-state drive, but you can add disk space using SDHC cards. In fact, you can boot alternate OSes by using different SDHC cards.

Specs?

Not that I'm specifically interested, but detail specs always help the purchase decision.

david