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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. 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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  2. 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 r_j_prahad · · Score: 4, Funny

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

      They're SCO employees?

  3. 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.

  4. 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.