New Web-Based Netbook From Litl — Based On Clutter, Uncluttered

cananian writes "The webbook company of Gnome's own Havoc Pennington (with a healthy dose of ex-Nokia and ex-OLPC engineers) finally shed its secrecy today, with a new web site and an article in the WSJ. Technical specs on the hardware were found by Engadget last week, and now comes a bit more information on the software behind the UI. Most of the client software is written in JavaScript with GTK/Clutter bindings, and the UI has some superficial similarities to Pentagram's designs for OLPC's Sugar."

Comments

Why this won't fail

[Anonymous Coward]

This product will be awesome for one simple reason:

The founder is named Havoc Pennington

Seriously! That's a Bad-assed name. That's like halfway from what you might expect Duke Nukem to name his dog or child.

I'll buy one, just so I can claim I have a Havoc machine.

Re:$700?

[CannonballHead]

Normal netbooks can't get propped up like easels. Duh! $350 netbook hinges!

Re:let me be the first

[grcumb]

Let me be the first to say that this thing's gonna be huge!

Really? Why?

It looks like a regular Atom netbook... Why pay $700.00USD when you can get a netbook with similar specs for half that price...

Dude, it's a joke.

Litl is going to be huge. Get it? Little? Huge! Ha. Haha.

Heh....

...Okay, you're right. I totally get why you missed that.

That wasn't so much 'whoosh' as 'wha-atever'.