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Petite MP3 Player Boots PCs Into Linux
An anonymous reader submits "A French company has created a teensy MP3 player that also boots PCs into Linux. The 1.7-inch diameter, half-ounce Medaillon (way smaller than an iPod) has been around for a while, but 128MB and 256MB models of the Z2 version are now supplied with Shinux, an embedded Linux distribution that includes lots of cool open source applications." The list of included apps, from AbiWord to Xchat, is pretty impressive for a device intended primarily as a music player.
Sounds like kleenex...
Smaller than iPod? Hmmm... maybe France has a future after all..
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
The question is: does this Shinux-booting MP3 player comes with xmms installed, so I can play MP3s?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
When are they going to make an MP3 player that works as a suppository? You all know you'd want it! ;)
The Apache is there to protect the key: If anyone who isn't allowed to tries to get the key, he'll be shot down with arrows, then scalped.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, they show a picture of the lenses flipping up, for just such an occasion.
Though, they still look ridiculous (horrific, even). Maybe that's why the first two people using them look like they're screaming?
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. -- ee cummings
those oakleys wouldn't exactly be cheap without the mp3 either.
*What if you want to listen to MP3s when it's dark out?* you flip 'em up and "look like a dork, OMG" as if nerds ever cared for such a thing.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I'd be pretty pissed off if I bought a 128 meg mp3 player and found half the space gone.
That happened to Ellen Feiss once. Like, half of the player was gone ... it's kind of ... a bummer.
She switched to an iPod!
They should also go completely black whenever you are in danger.
If Oakley made peril-sensitive sunglasses, I would be all over them.
You know you want to be like Corey Hart
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
I'll get one and put it next to my Quaassar and General Electric walkmans.
"It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself." - Henry Rollins
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses with mp3 players."
"Hit it!"
This is news? *yawn*
To Timothy the /. editor it is. Next week we're going to show him a LCD monitor. He'll be so excited he'll wet himself.