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Another low cost Linux PC. I think we can officially call it a trend

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 9 comments
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Joining the array of low cost Linux offerings such as the Asus Eee PC, the Everex Cloudbook , Elonux announced the Elonux One a sub 200 dollar Linux laptop targeted to go on sale in the UK starting in June. We saw similar announcements in the last couple weeks from Acer, who stated that “”Between the second and third quarters, we will have products that address ultra mobility and low-cost segments.” In addition Dell stated that it will “introduce more low-cost notebooks in Asia.” which will augment its Vostro 1000 notebook for sale in China which runs Red Flag Linux. This is a key direction for the industry as it fills out a market segment not previously addressed, particularly at this price point in the notebook computing world.

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Comments (9)

Bob_Robertson ·
I've been specing out my next hardware purchase, to replace the wife's 1G Athalon box.

2.2GHz Phenom 2G ram 250GB Serial ATA drive onboard accelerated video $550.

Not bad, and no Windows tax because I can reuse the WinXP we have and install it in VirtualBox or some other container so that it is better utilized than running XP natively.

Being able to recycle the CD burner, 802.11 card, keyboard, mouse, screen, etc, sure cuts down the cost of upgrading. But now I have two more IDE drives to throw away... :^(
techiem2 ·
Quoting:But now I have two more IDE drives to throw away...


Heresy! Old disks are to be dban'd and saved for other usage (until they physically die)!
Bob_Robertson ·
Actually, what I was going to do is use the larger of the IDE disks as the system disk, and put /home on the SATA disk.

So what use is an 8GB IDE disk anyway?
techiem2 ·
8GB is perfect for a lightweight desktop or a server. :)
jdixon ·
> So what use is an 8GB IDE disk anyway?

I'm sure Ken would be happy to have it for his Komputers4Kids program. You can contact him at http://www.lobby4linux.com
thenixedreport ·
Recycle the 8 GB. In other words, strip the metal and other parts from it and sell it to a recycling center. ;)
gus3 ·
> 8GB is perfect for a lightweight desktop or a server.

And smaller is perfect for a dedicated firewall.
wjl ·
8 GB is really perfect if you mount your /homes from elsewhere over NFS. I usually make partitions of that size for the OS. Your /homes could still be on that Terabyte RAID somewhere (where they actually belong, so you have *one* array to back up.

But you guys & gals know all that... ;-)
Bob_Robertson ·
The last time I tried setting up a separate / and /home, I started with an 8GB / partition. Sorry, but it filled up much too fast.

Since I was repeatedly reformatting due to trying things out on a new machine, I found that 10GB for / was the minimum. The old XP machine has the original 8GB disk and an additional 20GB "D:" drive. I'll utilize the 20GB disk for /, the new 250GB for /home and swap, since it's a SATA disk.

Even a Debian unstable desktop should be fine in 20GB for a few years... :^)

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