MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 6, 2010 @03:27PM 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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news? by hjf · 2010-07-06 15:34 · 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 quenda · 2010-07-06 17:38 · 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