[extropy-chat] Re: History in the making is so bland...

[BillK]

On 11/17/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:29:21PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > I know some of the people working on software for the
> > $100 laptops, and I am pretty sure that OS X will not
> > run on the (very) limited hardware you can build for
> > that money.
>
> These things can be eventually almost free.
> Imagine a few mm thick sandwich of
> OLED Display|Computer|Battery|PV cell, printed
> in organic/polymer electronics.
>
> A low power version could use electronic paper and MRAM
> logic.
>
> > And yes, it will be a modified Linux system.
>
> All is good, then. Zero proprietary components.
>
> --


I've got Puppy Linux running on an old P90 MHz laptop with only 73MB
of memory and it's wonderful!  Made an old machine useable again.
It runs off a 60MB bootable cd that loads everything into RAM, but can
also be easily installed on hard disk.

<http://www.goosee.com/puppy/>


BillK