(Decent) ARM based netbooks have already arrived this year. The Toshiba AC100 is great (I own one) and the EfikaMX from Gensei USA also looks very good. I was able to walk into a normal mainstream store in Brisbane (Australia) and pick up a Toshiba AC100.
The AC100 comes with Android by default but Linux has been hacked onto it.
There is also the Always Innovating smartbook, which runs a full Linux.
You are not entirely wrong Mr AC... and I only recently thought while reflecting on this that perhaps services such as OnLive and Gaikai which do cloud based game "streaming" could actually work reasonably well with these types of devices. Offload the performance requirements to the cloud!
If you need to keep the Microsoft Exchange server (2003) the best non-outlook setup I have found is to use is:
Davmail (http://davmail.sourceforge.net/) Exchange Gateway to break out all the native exchange stuff into open protocols. This runs on your local workstation or server if you want.
Thunderbird + Lightning calendar extension
I hate Evolution because it is slow and crashy, but perhaps it is not so bad if you have an exchange 2007+ server - but in this case I would be using Kontact/Kmail anyway.
I have copy pasted my comment I left on Kotaku here to where it may actually be read by some intelligent souls.
This console is obviously *not* x86 (aka "Intel") based and therefore any "but Windows this, OSX that" is irrelevant as they do not run on the architecture. The fact is that Linux is a sound choice for the platform because it is actually well suited to running on an ARM based platform. Windows CE is just laughable in general and there is no way that Apple would license iOS to anybody else.
In my opinion Android (a Linux derivative) is a better choice than because it has a development framework and tools available, stable ABI and also does not use X11 display server. Games developed for Android will also be playable on many more devices than just the Jungle and therefore it will be easy to attract developers.
The NetDevil guy is obviously a freaking idiot because a) he thinks that this device would somehow magically make its consumers part of the Linux community and b) that the Linux community are unwilling to pay for things. This is not true because there is a lot of commercial open source products and several indy games have been extremely successful due largely to Linux releases. Take for example The Humble Indy Bundle and World of Goo "pay what you want" sales in which Linux users were proven by statistics *willing* to pay *more* than Windows or Mac users. I find that in general Windows users are the most resistant to paying for software. Funny how market share doesn't matter.
I have doubts about the design of this device. Even disregarding the power of embedded hardware (Nvidia's Tegra platform *almost* could pull this off) there is no way you could play current generation 3D MMOs reminiscent of WoW and EVE Online (I play both of these on Linux BTW) as the screen is just too small and the touchpad and D-Pad are not suitable. Browser based MMOs are much more likely. I would imagine this to be like a Nintendo Gameboy but on a more open and accessible platform.
Also what is with the random "Linux OS will be an obstacle as well in this regard." just thrown into the middle of the third last paragraph? I can't believe this crap made it onto a major news site. This belongs on somebody's blog.
I'm a teenager (19) and I would say that my average is about 2 per day, though I am Australian and not your typical teen (sad, I know.) but I would say that the most I have ever sent in a day would have been about 20.
How kids could *average* 50 per day is beyond me - and wouldn't Facebook be replacing a lot of texting so shouldn't the number be much lower?
So if people think of their computers as people why do they not care about their computers getting viruses? Some people are ignorant, some are lazy and don't care that their computer/friend has a virus. Some think that it is not their problem! There is clearly a type of person in our society who receive minimal respect for the work they do - in fact they are treated worse than animals!
People who go around giving STDs to people knowingly are prosecuted - why not people who do the same with computers?
Why would you care about your pet or your friend getting sick and not your computer?
As you can see, I respect my follow peoples. (Even if I don't like them... damn Windows people).
No... as far as Windows goes - the OS is still a problem. Sure, you COULD make a pretty GUI overlay but the facts are:
Previous attempts at overlays have been extremely buggy and sucky. Though you could write a whole new shell or use KDE4 (yes, you can use it as a shell on Windows) or BlackBox... But companies simply are not that clever!
The Windows OS itself is just to heavy and degrades too fast.
People will know it runs Windows and will want to load their usual applications onto the device - these interfaces just put you back to square 1.
At the end of the day these devices are going to be in the hands of those treacherous users who will try do infinitely stupid things with them. Windows simply will not stand up to that beating.
It is fairly normal from what I gather for Mine workers to be flown from all corners of the country on the mining company's expense to and from the site. Though of course it is normal for these workers to do VERY long shifts and something like a 3 weeks on 3 days off schedule. Expenses incurred attracting skilled workers are probably a non-issue for a large mining company.
I probably wouldn't have noticed this as the number of users I see who attempt to email files between 50MB and 4.2GB is amazing! They actually complain that it is taking forever to send their email or that their email has stopped working completely because they are receiving a massive file which clogs their receive queue!
The only (as far as I know) usable and free (as in beer) program for processing RAW photos outside Windows or OS X... DigiKam was the only one I knew about for AGES before I heard of Raw Therapee.
There is plenty of sandboxing technology out there, but few are willing to use it.
I had some discussions on the Haiku OS forums about using some type of application virtualisation or sandboxing as a way to take care of OS level security. Links to these are Here... and Here.
There is many ways to skin a cat, but its almost impossible to find the "best" way when you are trying to balance security and user experience.
OMFG. You are right - I too correct people for saying Ubuntu is Linux all the time. You caught me out there, though it did seem that you were implying that Ubuntu WAS Linux where as SuSE wasn't.
I just guessed that your gripe with KDE was that once upon a time it was built upon non-free software, judging by your # I thought you were one of those old fogies.
I'm not really following your argument about compatibility though. KDE is used by a large group of users - hardly a "minority" so I really can't see any reason why KDE should not be supported to the same standard as Gnome.
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(Decent) ARM based netbooks have already arrived this year. The Toshiba AC100 is great (I own one) and the EfikaMX from Gensei USA also looks very good. I was able to walk into a normal mainstream store in Brisbane (Australia) and pick up a Toshiba AC100.
The AC100 comes with Android by default but Linux has been hacked onto it.
There is also the Always Innovating smartbook, which runs a full Linux.
You are not entirely wrong Mr AC... and I only recently thought while reflecting on this that perhaps services such as OnLive and Gaikai which do cloud based game "streaming" could actually work reasonably well with these types of devices. Offload the performance requirements to the cloud!
I hate Evolution because it is slow and crashy, but perhaps it is not so bad if you have an exchange 2007+ server - but in this case I would be using Kontact/Kmail anyway.
I have copy pasted my comment I left on Kotaku here to where it may actually be read by some intelligent souls.
This console is obviously *not* x86 (aka "Intel") based and therefore any "but Windows this, OSX that" is irrelevant as they do not run on the architecture. The fact is that Linux is a sound choice for the platform because it is actually well suited to running on an ARM based platform. Windows CE is just laughable in general and there is no way that Apple would license iOS to anybody else.
In my opinion Android (a Linux derivative) is a better choice than because it has a development framework and tools available, stable ABI and also does not use X11 display server. Games developed for Android will also be playable on many more devices than just the Jungle and therefore it will be easy to attract developers.
The NetDevil guy is obviously a freaking idiot because a) he thinks that this device would somehow magically make its consumers part of the Linux community and b) that the Linux community are unwilling to pay for things. This is not true because there is a lot of commercial open source products and several indy games have been extremely successful due largely to Linux releases. Take for example The Humble Indy Bundle and World of Goo "pay what you want" sales in which Linux users were proven by statistics *willing* to pay *more* than Windows or Mac users. I find that in general Windows users are the most resistant to paying for software. Funny how market share doesn't matter.
I have doubts about the design of this device. Even disregarding the power of embedded hardware (Nvidia's Tegra platform *almost* could pull this off) there is no way you could play current generation 3D MMOs reminiscent of WoW and EVE Online (I play both of these on Linux BTW) as the screen is just too small and the touchpad and D-Pad are not suitable. Browser based MMOs are much more likely. I would imagine this to be like a Nintendo Gameboy but on a more open and accessible platform.
Also what is with the random "Linux OS will be an obstacle as well in this regard." just thrown into the middle of the third last paragraph? I can't believe this crap made it onto a major news site. This belongs on somebody's blog.
How will the iris scanners see your eyes and vice versa?
I'm a teenager (19) and I would say that my average is about 2 per day, though I am Australian and not your typical teen (sad, I know.) but I would say that the most I have ever sent in a day would have been about 20.
How kids could *average* 50 per day is beyond me - and wouldn't Facebook be replacing a lot of texting so shouldn't the number be much lower?
http://xkcd.com/792/
You can add house to that list.
So if people think of their computers as people why do they not care about their computers getting viruses? Some people are ignorant, some are lazy and don't care that their computer/friend has a virus. Some think that it is not their problem! There is clearly a type of person in our society who receive minimal respect for the work they do - in fact they are treated worse than animals!
People who go around giving STDs to people knowingly are prosecuted - why not people who do the same with computers?
Why would you care about your pet or your friend getting sick and not your computer?
As you can see, I respect my follow peoples. (Even if I don't like them... damn Windows people).
At the end of the day these devices are going to be in the hands of those treacherous users who will try do infinitely stupid things with them. Windows simply will not stand up to that beating.
No drugs and groupies?
There. I said it.
Get off my lawn you old farts, and stop making stupid rules which unfairly target young people!
It is fairly normal from what I gather for Mine workers to be flown from all corners of the country on the mining company's expense to and from the site. Though of course it is normal for these workers to do VERY long shifts and something like a 3 weeks on 3 days off schedule. Expenses incurred attracting skilled workers are probably a non-issue for a large mining company.
Fuck me dead! This is a just little weird!
Though good luck to the Linux Action Show anyway.
I probably wouldn't have noticed this as the number of users I see who attempt to email files between 50MB and 4.2GB is amazing! They actually complain that it is taking forever to send their email or that their email has stopped working completely because they are receiving a massive file which clogs their receive queue!
Hang on a sec
s/biker/gangster
s/biker/hacker
s/biker/goth
It is pretty much the same with any of the "cool" minority groups.
The only (as far as I know) usable and free (as in beer) program for processing RAW photos outside Windows or OS X... DigiKam was the only one I knew about for AGES before I heard of Raw Therapee.
Its about 7pm in NZ you insensitive clod.
I will hunt you down and stab you in the face. Do not say "legos".
Do you think that apps added to Linux distribution's repositories aren't vetted at all?
Stop. Breathe. Think about it for a second.
Somebody gimp up pedobear with a turban.
Linux has used sand-boxing for years. I don't think your joke is very funny.
There is plenty of sandboxing technology out there, but few are willing to use it.
I had some discussions on the Haiku OS forums about using some type of application virtualisation or sandboxing as a way to take care of OS level security. Links to these are Here... and Here.
There is many ways to skin a cat, but its almost impossible to find the "best" way when you are trying to balance security and user experience.
but animal fats are better!
OMFG. You are right - I too correct people for saying Ubuntu is Linux all the time. You caught me out there, though it did seem that you were implying that Ubuntu WAS Linux where as SuSE wasn't.
I just guessed that your gripe with KDE was that once upon a time it was built upon non-free software, judging by your # I thought you were one of those old fogies.
I'm not really following your argument about compatibility though. KDE is used by a large group of users - hardly a "minority" so I really can't see any reason why KDE should not be supported to the same standard as Gnome.