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MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds

Posted by kdawson on from the old-time-clickety-clack dept.

muirhead writes "Installing MeeGo on an Eee PC 1000 netbook is quick, slick, and easy. The user interface is colorful and stylish with many quirky animations. MeeGo's features are easy to discover and it is fast and responsive. Underneath it all though there is still just a netbook. That means it's got a display screen that has no significant weight behind it. That means typing on an undersized keyboard that has no life. All of these undesirable features can, however, be fixed by adding 9kg (~20lbs) of VT320 video terminal."

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  1. news? by hjf · · Score: 4, Informative

    so this guy hooked up a terminal to a netbook. mad skillz.

    move along people, nothing to see here.

    1. Re:news? by BenFranske · · Score: 3, Informative

      Mod parent up, it's unfortunate that even reasonably skilled (compared to the general populous) computer users don't know that the type of communication is independent of the physical connector.

    2. Re:news? by quenda · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, DB25 was standard for serial. the DB9 serial was an IBM oddity, as was the DB25 instead of Centronics for parallel. I guess it saved them a few bucks.
      However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy :-)

        The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

    3. Re:news? by andyn · · Score: 2, Informative

      DB9

      ITYM DE9.

    4. Re:news? by red_dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

      However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy :-)

      But we're talking about RS-232 serial ports here, so in theory:

      • Male: DTE
      • Female: DCE

      But terminals are always DTEs even though they always seem to have a female connector so that the fragile pins are on the easily-replaceable cable; many non-PC computers follow the same logic. And then there are things like Cisco routers which are either DTE or DCE depending on the cable used or how it's attached.

      --
      In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
    5. Re:news? by SnarfQuest · · Score: 2, Informative

      And don't forget DEC's version of the DB9 serial port, which was a bit earlier than IBM's and had a different pinout. So, if you have old DEC equipment with a DB9 that isn't talking to you, you may need a different cable than you expect.

      --
      Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
  2. Not any Linux distro suitable for smartphones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think the other distros in Meego's space (Android and ChromeOS) include ncurses or VTs. I could be very wrong, though.