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India Officially Launches Simputer

Posted by timothy on from the high-hopes-still-high dept.

aravind writes "The Communications and IT Minister, Pramod Mahajan, has launched India's indigenously developed low-cost handheld Personal Computer -- Simputer -- at an IT and Communication expo, SMAU 2002, in Milan. A low-cost handheld PC on GNU/Linux working through a browser for international markup language IML, priced at Rs9000 (less than $200). 200Mhz StrongArm processor, 32MB DRAM, 24 MB flash, touchscreen, speakers, USB, text-to-speech, MP3 capability ... " Look here for some of the previous stories we've run on the Simputer.

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  1. wOOt by amentia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yey. maybe first non-troll post.

    is 200$ really that cheap?

  2. Posted @05:14AM EDT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Slashdot was running on Windows XP Professional, then the server clock would switch from EDT to EST automatically. Let's see how many days it takes for CmdrTaco to notice the problem and fix his cock.

  3. Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I do so hate to point this out, but Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Diluting the trademark by using it as part of a different mark-- like "GNU/Linux"-- is illegal under United States trademark law and similar laws in all countries signatory to the Berne Convention. Stop writing "GNU/Linux." You can call it "Linux with GNU sofware" or "GNU software on Linux" or whatever, but you can't call it "GNU/Linux."

    1. Re:Linux by mdechene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, next you're gonna want us to stop calling the old MS OS's "Windows 9x", and refer to it as DOS with food coloring.

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    2. Re:Linux by dbm1175 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Wouldn't the proper label be "the GNU Operating System using the Linux (TM) kernel"?

  4. Re:Indians smell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What do you think I was doing? I was raping her!

  5. Wow! by LucidityZero · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these things?

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  6. Re:Indians smell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Inside your rectum... man-jiuce! How it got there?

  7. sand niggahs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes indians are dirty smelly niggers, we shoudl rid the planet of those fucken niggers. Lets get the Bush administration to nuke them niggers ou of there country. fucken curry munchers!

  8. Re:Available outside India? by k4biR+5uxXoRs+KoX · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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    they're going to be available wherever my mom's pussy is. wedged inside. oh baby. i can smell it now.
    1. just like india. fuck you. fuck rms. fuck cmdrtaco. peace out bitches.
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    i fucking rule!! you fucking don't. bitch.