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Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inexpensive-penguins dept.

srinravi writes to mention an Ars Technica article about another ambitious 'inexpensive computer' project. A Chinese manufacturer, YellowSheepRiver, is aiming to make available a $150 Linux PC built with inexpensive hardware components. From the article: "Urging potential customers to 'Say no to Wintel,' YellowSheepRiver is devoted to using its own Linux distribution and hardware designed and manufactured by Chinese companies. YellowSheepRiver hopes to close the "digital divide" by making computer technology available to the Chinese public at an affordable price. The Municator, which comes with 256MB of RAM, uses a unique 64-bit CPU with an instruction set based on a subset of the MIPS architecture. Designed by a Chinese company called BLX, the the cheap chip is clocked at 400 or 600MHZ and supposedly provides performance comparable to that of an Intel P3."

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  1. Now with built in firewall!! by gasmonso · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet this thing filters questionable content right out of the box!

    http://religiousfreaks.com/
  2. It is so slow that by t0qer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Designed by a Chinese company called BLX, the the cheap chip is clocked at 400 or 600MHZ and supposedly provides performance comparable to that of an Intel P3."

    When you watch american kung fu flicks (chuck norris) they automagically get the "out of sync english voiceover" effect.

  3. YellowSheepRiver?? by pr0nbot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I ain't drinkin from that river!

  4. Branding Issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In another lost in translation marketing descision an Chinese firm decides to put "Yellow and River" together in their name. I'd call that a piss poor decision?

  5. don't drink the yellow water.... by everphilski · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...it tastes baaaaaaaaaad!

  6. Now running Rinux by EntropyXP · · Score: 0, Funny

    See, the unique feature is that it's all chinese. Do their bits read from left to right?
    The most expensive part, though, will be the keyboard!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Large_chinese_k eyboard.jpg

    --
    "No one will really be free until nerd persecution ends."
  7. Too bad it does run Linux by SlappyBastard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Because a key selling point for any product is to see how long it takes to get Linux on it.

    If they really wanted to make a killing, they'd hamstring the machine to ensure that it could never run Linux, and then the company would make outlandish claims about how Linux will never run on their machine.

    Then, there would be a rush of people trying put whatver toaster oven version of Linux on the thing. Within weeks, the free publicity machine would splatter screen shots of those first beautiful lines of [FAILED] [OK] [OK] [FAILED] [DEAR GOD, WHAT DID YOU DO?]
    --
    I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
  8. brand Name? by lbmouse · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK...
      Communicator
    - Communist
    ----------------------
          Municator

  9. YellowSheepRiver by loconet · · Score: 3, Funny

    A much more appropriate name would have been YellowCheapRiver. Ha Ha.,

    Thank you. I'll be here all week.

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    [alk]