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Intel Plans Linux/Mozilla Web Appliance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting[-on-the-wagon dept.

Quite a number of people have been writing about the latest Web appliance. Intel is unveiling a Linux/Mozilla box at CES that will run a Celeron processor. Intel is planning pricing to be between $300 and $700, with some upgradability. More technical details will be forthcoming, but one of the interesting parts is that they plan to include a phone in the device, perhaps hoping to replace phones around the house.

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  1. MS was on intel's bad side for some time now.. by eshefer · · Score: 5

    Intel has been pissed at microsoft for years now. MS have been VERY slow in implementing diferant intel technologies, and as a result intel started looking at alternative OS's for some time. The best example of Intels annoyance at microsoft is the slow adoption of task switching (386 and higher I think) the chips intruduced in 1985 which had task switching didn't get a MS operating system until 1995. Another good example is MS slow adoption of USB. Although win95 versions (from OSR2.5) did include USB support, MS didn't do nothing to addvertize that fact to end users. They tryed to change that in win98 (3 years after the standard was finalized..). Intel is interested in getting people to buy intel chips. Not helping Microsoft. Intel has realized that a lot of high performance intel chips are going into machines that act as servers running linux and BSD and thouse comunities react much faster to improvments and changes that intel adds to their proccessors.
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