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Nokia's $400 Linux Terminal For The Masses

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday January 17, 2001 @05:27PM from the gimme-one dept.

acoopersmith writes: "In the San Jose Mercury News coverage of the recent Consumer Electronics Show was this article about the new Nokia "Media Terminal" - a device that's designed as a cross between a TiVo and a WebTV, but which is really a Linux PC, including USB& FireWire ports for attaching additional storage, scanners, and printers, and other expansion capabilities. Has the hacker-friendly "appliance" finally arrived?"

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Now what's a hacker to do??? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-01-17 13:30 · Score: 5

I guess the challange now is to try and hack windoze onto it. How dare those corporate fat cats tell me what os to run on my machine :)

I wonder which is the bigger challange... installing linux on a tv box designed to run windoze, or to install windoze on a tv box designed to run linux?