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On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:27:09 -0500, Linonut

I agree. Something about this whole thing appears very suspicious. Like how they stated they plan to go with Linux and yet still are working with M$ to develop a version of WinCE to run the device.

From the tone of the article, it sounds as if this project is not even in the production phase as of yet, and yet previous announcements made it seem as if they were already cranking these things out (no pun intended...oops, no more crank either).

Finally, I just don't get the uninformed comments about Linux at all. I have a complete version of DSL loaded on a 128M SD media card (with plenty room to spare) and it boots up a complete desktop with various apps and lots of functionality. These units are slated to have 4X that amount!

Being as DSL is a distro aimed at various hardware configs so has to have different drivers and whatnot to support this variety - it makes absolutely no sense that Linux is called "bloated" when it could be trimmed down even more since it will be running on one simple architecture and only needs enough to support that homogenous hardware.

There's certainly nothing else about that machine to warrant those comments. 500Mhz-128M is plenty for a decent Linux system.

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