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

Posted by timothy on from the looks-nifty-will-it-ship? dept.

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."

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  1. Shouldn't be running GNOME by petrus4 · · Score: 1, Troll

    If there's one thing GNOME isn't designed for, it's underpowered hardware.

    Could still be entirely useful, though. Scrub the existing OS, and put either Damn Small Linux or NetBSD on it, with blackbox/ratpoison, screen, vim, and cplay/xine for multimedia. It'd make a nice upgrade to my current laptop, actually.

    Good for email, web browsing, office work, a bit of shell scripting, note taking and the usual laptop stuff, and low end multimedia. Depending on the video card, 1.8 Ghz will also play WoW, if somewhat limply; but you'd want Linux rather than NetBSD for that.

    Drop the price by $200-$300 as well, and then we could talk. $700 US (prolly $600 AUD) is too much for a machine with these specs. I can buy a new desktop for $1100 or so.