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  1. Little Linux Laptop by Patch86 · · Score: 1 · on Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks?

    I can't be 100% sure what you've got because I can't find much info about it on the internet, but odds are good that is just a re-stickering of a very prevalent ARM netbook that's doing the rounds.

    If so, a developer community can be found below, and there is a full replacement Linux distro available (no promises that it'll work, YMMV etc.).

    http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/

  2. Re:I'll believe it when I can buy it. by TwinkieStix · · Score: 1 · on Video Review of Hivision's $100 ARM-Based Android Laptop

    I've had this hardware running Linux with Firefox and Abiword for over a year now:
    http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/

  3. Re:I've got one already... by Thag · · Score: 1 · on 7-inch Android Netbook From GNB

    Another good site for that line of machines is Little Linux Laptop.

    I've got one, and am now running 3MX on it. 3MX makes it better, but still has some issues.

  4. Re:fp - i win! by David+Gerard · · Score: 1 · on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law

    http://littlelinuxlaptop.com/ is your friend if you get one of these things.

  5. Re:Will run on netbooks or drag? by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Informative · on How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development

    For comparison, a MIPS notebook is currently available and doing reasonably well in the UK and the Netherlands: http://littlelinuxlaptop.com/ - the firmware is ass, but the haxx0rs have come up with their own distro which is presently at early-beta stage.

    (I've tried typing on one. I can actually touchtype properly on it, which I can't on an Eee 701.)

    A MIPS or ARM chip of a given processing power will always give better results with less heat than an x86, because RISC is actually better for that sort of thing. I realise all modern x86s are RISC inside with an x86 microcode interpreter on the front, but that interpreter's still fat enough to make the difference.

    And Windows will never run on them ever (though I wouldn't mind trying NT4 for MIPS on the little laptop ;-) but GNU/Linux is exactly the same.

  6. Re:Itanium would have worked-AMD screwed it for in by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Informative · on A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops

    http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/ - these things are widely available in the UK. They're basically toys as yet (locked down, user-hacked firmware is a hideously rough alpha), but very interesting for their potential.

  7. Re:Well, not quite by cyclomedia · · Score: 1 · on A Windows CE Shell For Netbooks

    >Back on topic, CE on a Netbook? Yeah - no thanks.
    >It would be no different than a PDA. Just bulkier.

    Whilst I concur with your first point regarding CE I feel the need to counter your second point on a general leve. I WANT a netbook that is no different to bulkier PDA, i.e. A PDA with wifi and a keyboard. That's all I've been wanting since I retired my 8MB Psion Revo a few years back. I'm planning on getting one of these for xmas: http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/

    (I already have a Server hosting all my music and movies, an Xbox to play games on and a Desktop to get real work done on. I want a netbook for surfing on the move and I don't want to have to use a stylus to do it!)

  8. Re:Don't count on it... by slashmojo · · Score: 1 · on Sub-$100 Laptops Have Finally Arrived

    That seems to be the same ($120) system according to this..

    http://www.littlelinuxlaptop.com/

    The price difference is presumably the resellers markup.. now that the cat is out of the bag on the 'real' price (and who makes it) I would think they will have to reduce their markup soon or lose sales to other cheaper resellers.

    I doubt the new one will ever be available to regular buyers for $98 though unless you can get enough people together for a bulk buy.