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Linux Based Tablets Are Coming

Posted by timothy on from the drunk-people dept.

CrypticSpawn writes "Read some good news on Diracian; there will be a Linux tablet coming out running Lycoris's Linux distribution, Lycoris Desktop/LX Tablet Edition. What's great is the tablet is the Protege by Toshiba, so you get a laptop and a tablet wrapped up into one. I guess I am a gadget fanatic, I love my Zaurus, now I want this. They even have pictures of it here. Also found another reference of this tablet on PC World, without the pics."

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  1. Re:My Experience with the Linux by tftp · · Score: 5, Funny
    I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming.

    This is probably one of the most innovative parts of the posting :-) I don't recall anyone else claiming that before.

  2. Re:Still Underpowered w/ a Pentium III by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah..... 1.4 Mhz is definitely the minimum i'd be willing to get.

  3. Re:My Experience with the Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is probably one of the most innovative parts of the posting :-) I don't recall anyone else claiming that before.

    Perhaps they meant to say "I consider myself to be very technically inclined, having programmed while drinking VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming."

  4. Take the red tablet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if the Linux tablets will come in both red and blue?

  5. Linux Based Tablets Are Coming... by JanusFury · · Score: 3, Funny

    And when they arrive, the peoples of earth shall TREMBLE under the gaze of their never-closing eyes! The very core of the earth shall be smitten by unquenchable fire, and those who resist the glorious new world order of the Tablets will be used as fuel for the flames!

    THE END IS NIGH, 'WARE THE COMING OF THE LINUX BASED TABLETS!!!11

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  6. Linux Based Tablets? by Mister+Transistor · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is this, some kind of new pain reliever? Take two linux-based tablets and call me in the morning!

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  7. Linux on a tablet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Come on, now that's a bit hard to swallow...

  8. Uhm so let's see... by CountBrass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft, with their market share and cold hard cash, couldn't convince people that tablets were a "good idea" but some minute outfit, using an OS that's has the most arcane GUI of any of the major OSs is going to succeed ?

    I don't think so.

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