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Handheld Gaming / Media-player Gadget Runs Linux

Posted by timothy on from the redundantly-so-yes-it-runs-linux-redundantly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices has profiled a new portable game- and media-player based on embedded Linux. The GPX2-F100 features dual ARM9 processors, USB 2.0, a 3.5-inch color LCD, and support for both native and emulated games. A Linux SDK (software development kit) will be available when the device ships. Hmmm... I wonder how hard it'll be to get GPE and OPIE running on it?"

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  1. hah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    beat everyone to it, even though it's a troll
    first post!

  2. First Prime Factorization Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GPX2-F100: GPX2-F2*5*5
    ARM9: ARM3*3
    LinuxDevices has profiled a new portable game- and media-player based on embedded Linux. The GPX2-F2*5*5 features dual ARM3*3 processors, USB 2.0, a 3.5-inch color LCD, and support for both native and emulated games. A Linux SDK (software development kit) will be available when the device ships. Hmmm... I wonder how hard it'll be to get GPE and OPIE running on it?

  3. Wait, let me get this straight by Charles+Jo · · Score: 0, Troll

    LinuxDevices announced that there is a new device which uses Linux. OMG.

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    Charles Jo
  4. yes but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    can you actuly play games on it

  5. Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't care if some bullshit media player runs linux.

  6. WHY IS LINUX A PIECE OF SHIT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes indeed that is the question. A few answers apply:

    -Lack of QA
    -No creativity, just copy of other software
    -Very buggy
    -Hard to use for most people
    -Lack of good software (think of MS Works Suite 2005, for example)
    -Difficult to get real (commercial) games working
    -Little documentation
    -Little consistency
    -Ugly

    Well, no wonder 2005 IS NOT the year of the desktop for Linux.

    You are failures...