[clue-tech] ot comments on "little survery"

[Brian Gibson]

Cell phones, especially smartphones, are now, where those "ancient" machines were then.  Linux is making inroads in that field---22 Android phones by the end of the year.  Back then, I had always imagined the computer would be worn on the wrist a la Dick Tracy or James Bond, but the fact these hand-held computers resemble Star Trek communicators/tricorders doesn't hurt.



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From: Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com>
To: CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 5:10:58 PM
Subject: [clue-tech] ot comments on "little survery"

Impressed as I am by the tremendous performance improvements achieved
by Linux on ancient, less cabable hardware, I believe we are missing
the point. Yes, there are lots of older machines that can benefit from
Linux, but these machines will eventually die of old age, and almost
no one is producing such puny machines any longer. With the exception
of Netbooks, almost all of the current generation machines are capable
of running either Windows or Linux quite well.