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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. The "Apple experience"? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought the Apple experience was related to having a solid, well-functioning OS and a very friendly user interface.

    Little did I know that it was actually about having hardware limitations put upon me.

    Learn something new everyday!

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  2. Re:If 2004 is the year of Linux by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree, tux is gay, hopefully these guys aren't zealot enough to have like a big airbrushed tux on the side of the case or something like that.

    That'd be a one-way ticket to receivership.

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  3. That might work when... by wvitXpert · · Score: 1, Troll

    they can offer a sleek eye candy interface (sorry KDE isn't there yet) and, most importantly, allow programs to be installed by dragging a folder (like in Mac OS) instead of the dependency hell that is Linux as we know it today.