Intel Releases Red Hat Based Netpliance

waldoj writes: "Intel has announced their "Dot.Station," a Red Hat-powered Internet appliance. With a price around $500, I think I'll just buy an eMachine..." I wonder how much the marketroids were paid to come up with the name... the article is fairly skeptical, and I don't see enough non-vapor to know for sure.

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How many of these things do we need?

[DrgnDancer]

What sets this apart from the other net appliances out there? It uses Linux (which is cool), but other thna that (and a few others also fit that statement), it is yet another "almost computer". Why is Intel getting into this crowded market one has to wonder?

Intel's one good idea...

[Animol]

The most redeeming part of this particular article was Intel's for-once genius move. They plan not on targeting the device toward individual consumers, but to businesses that provide internet services to their customers. I for one have been kicked out of many a cyber-coffeeshop for messing with the system. Intel seems almost to be paving the way toward the future portrayed in sci-fi, that of an internet connection as ready as a payphone. Not many other companies share that as a vision for a product. With that strategy, it would be nothing to get Telco support in this.