[clue-talk] small Linux-based laptop

[Brian Gibson]

The gPC (the $200 Walmart PC) has a shortcut to Gmail
on its dock and has Thunderbird as an email client. 
Because Firefox is integral to the OS, any other web
email service is accessible as well.

http://www.thinkgos.com/

Links to vendors are on the homepage.  

If the purchase is not pressing, I plan on bringing my
gOS box I built using a P2-333 to the installfest for
people to play with.  It's no speed demon but still
usable. 

Everex, the company behind the gPC, also has a
notebook called the Zonbu and a mini-PC called the
Zonbox

http://www.zonbu.com/

Pricing is tiered depending on whether or not you
subscribe to their monthly support plan.  The mini-PC
starts at $99 and the notebook starts at $279.

FYI this is NOT their gOS notebook.  This one runs a
modified Gentoo with XFCE.

An interesting feature of the Zonbu machines is:

[From Wikipedia]
The filesystem architecture combines a transparent
overlay filesystem (pioneered by Linux Live
Distributions) with an on-line continuous backup
service to create a self-healing architecture. User
data is locally cached on Compact Flash Card, then
transparently encrypted with 128-bit encryption and
transferred to remote storage servers on Amazon S3
from where it's also accessible from any
Internet-connected device.

I would love to know how to do that and wonder if it
can be used in a similar way that roaming profiles are
used in a Windows Active Directory, i.e. I log onto
any of my boxes and I'm presented with the same
desktop environment and files.  I wonder how
concurrent access and synchronization would be
handled.  Still the idea of having a centralized home
directory is appealing.

--- Walter Hildebrandt <walterh9991 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> WalMart was selling a computer for about $200 that
> had Linux on it.  It 
> was a desktop computer.  It probably does E-Mail. 
> 
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> > I was looking for a small, inexpensive computer
> for a cousin.  All she wants is email but I haven't
> seen an email-only device in a long time.  I came
> across this Asus computer, which sounds interesting.
>  It's the Eee PC.  It runs Linux and has a
> solid-state disk.  The screen is only 7 inches wide
> and the keyboard isn't much larger.  Prices range
> from $300-$500.
> >
> >
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209847,00.asp
> >
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