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Element Computer: ION Linux on Linux Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the good-idea dept.

JigSaw writes "Well known Lycoris person Jason Spisak left the company to join Element Computer, a new hardware company which now strives to offer the Apple experience on PCs: they sell Linux-certified modern hardware with their own flavor of Debian, ION Linux. ION is a desktop distro and it is developed specifically to work perfectly with the accompanied hardware. Other highlights include usage support (as opposed to installation-only support other distros provide) and system upgrades specific to the exact hardware the user runs. The KDE-based distro will only sell with their hardware as Mike Hjorleifsson says in his interview." (The company was previously mentioned on Slashdot.)

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  1. What a match! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The cheapness of Apple hardware with the expense of a Linux distribution license!

  2. Apple experience? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    which now strives to offer the Apple experience on PCs

    They sell PCs with single-button mice, without floppy drives, at 3 times the price?

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    1. Re:Apple experience? by PretzelBat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Floppies are great!!

      How many ironclad excuses are there for missing homework assignments???

      Student: "Um... sorry. My floppy disintegrated."

      Teacher: "That's okay. It happens to all of us."

      I will mourn the passing of this vital source of excuses. Soon I'm going to have to buy a dog. (or a Windows box!)

  3. Secret developers by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny
    We don't publicly state who and where our developers are for obvious reasons.

    Ummm... you don't have any?

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    1. Re:Secret developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course we have developers. It is just that they are all hot Linux babes and we would like to avoid the extreme amounts of sexual harassment that would occur if slashdoters found out where these women worked.

    2. Re:Secret developers by r_j_prahad · · Score: 4, Funny

      We don't publicly state who and where our developers are for obvious reasons.

      They're SCO employees?

  4. Linux with usage support? by rdsmith4 · · Score: 5, Funny
    And it ships on hardware?!? A novel concept! This will be THE breakthrough! 2004 is indeed the Year of the Penguin!

    Oh wait, you have to pay for it.

    Damn.

  5. Lesson Learned! by women · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm glad that Element Computer decided to name their distro ION as opposed to the more logical but lawsuit prone Macinux.

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  6. Re:This could work if the price is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then again, you gots ta ask, who needs 21 inches of emacs, anyway...

  7. Somebody should tell him... by spoonboy42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is all well and good, except for the tablet model (Helium). Doesn't he know that it's extremely difficult to IONize Helium?

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  8. Don't forget.... by mao+che+minh · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...you also have to throw away all of your games and junk half of your software. Then go to the ATM, withdraw about $1,000, and promptly rip it up.

    There, Apple experience complete.

  9. Wow. by juuri · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. I was just thinking to myself, "You know what, Mike? We need MORE LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS!"

    I know most sports stars refer to themselves in the third person, but you actually think to yourself in the third person? Do you also answer your own rhetorical questions?

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  10. The difference between Apple and Element... by Nermal6693 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The only real difference is that apple.com doesn't get slashdotted ;)

  11. Re:Apple clones by trash+eighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    how could mac clone companies exist before the mac even does? get a time machine or something?