Re: the $50 netbook

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I have a laptop with 56 Mb of ram running debian squeeze and a speakup enabled kernel. Runs like a charm. I've even run apache, samba, and mysql on it and still had no problems with response time. It's a beautiful thing. So I'll bet you could run linux in character mode on this sipit thing and it'd be plenty fast.

Does anybody know what they mean when they say this zipit has a keyboard with a "Full backlit QWERTY design"?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: the $50 netbook


It runs linux kernel 2.6.29 so one might be able to compile speakup
modules to run with that kernel.  I think it is an lx2 processor, no idea
about the speed.
Ram is on the low side at 32M and I do not know if the keyboard would be
atall accessible.
They say 4 hours battery life.
Still quite interesting.
regards, Willem


On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Josh wrote:

Hi,

Check this out. Wonder if any accessible Linux like Ubuntu will run on it?

17) I have no idea if the accessible Linux distributions will run on this, but here is a way to get a Linux Netbook for around $50:
http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2009/09/28/the-50-netbook-yes-i-am-completely-serious/


Josh


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