More Itsy in the News

DJ Jose wrote in to note that the Compaq Itsy is making the PR rounds again. We've mentioned this a few times in the past (seems that every few months it gets some new publicity). For those who haven't been here all along, Itsy is a tiny little butt kicking Linux box that I lust after and occasionally have erotic dreams about. But lets not talk about that now.

Comments

Re:freeley available kernel?

[razorwire]

For some reason the link in the CNET story ("Compaq says the kernel for Itsy is freely available") leads to some sort of slideshow. Check out this page instead.
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Is smaller better?

[tmhsiao]

While the Itsy looks cool and everything, depending on the application, I'd daresay I'd prefer a larger device.

If we're talking about a PDA, I might not mind something so small (my primary concern being the input interface--Graphitti?--where would you write?). But for more general purpose portable computing, I think I'd go for something about 4"x6" or 5"x7" (somewhere around the size of a Star Trek DS9 data report pad).

I'd love to see 3com (or someone else) put together a device this size for electronic books, general web browsing and the like.

Then again, I also want an ntp client, procmail, and Perl in my VCR, so it'll never not know the time and so I can program it by e-mail (TiVo, maybe?). But companies never listen to me . . .