On 7 March 2012 13:28, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 March 2012 13:21, Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/03/12 13:08, Liam Proven wrote: >>> It's a *very* low-spec £25 computer. 256MB of non-expandable RAM, >>> no local storage or storage interface, just an SD card, a very >>> low-powered low-end ARM core, and a proprietary GPU with >>> proprietary drivers, even a proprietary bootloader. >>> >> >> Sounds delightful! :D > > Hey, it's a hella cool toy for £15 (standalone model) or £25 (with > LAN). They sold out the initial production run in about 3min, at 6AM, > and there have been 7 orders a second ever since. Looks like they will > sell several million units. > > My hope is that they do really well and it results in a second version > which is a bit more powerful and a bit more open.
Out of interest, in what way is it not open? > >>> It is roughly equivalent to an 11 or 12 year old PC: a Pentium II >>> 300MHz with a quarter of a gig of RAM. It is not a suitable system >>> for running Ubuntu on, unless you want to give people a very bad >>> impression. >> >> You could install GNOME 2 instea.. oh wait.. > > Ha! Indeed. > > I think someone is working on a Lubuntu version, or at least a custom LXDE > port. I should think someone is working on just about anything one would possibly imagine doing with it, and probably a good number of things one would not imagine doing. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
