I agree without a doubt that so called "Internet Appliances" should have a ethernet connection. Yes, of course I realize that most americans do not have a ethernet network inside the home. However we need to use technology to help progress the state of networked america. I say follow the Audiotron's (http://www.audiotron.net) exampe, it not only has HPNA2 for people in homes without ethernet AND ethernet for homes that do. Providing this sort of option will not only satisy the needs of everyone but it will help set ethernet networks as the standard in homes across america as well as raising demand for quality broadband connections. With demand we will see higher saturation and lower prices. For a company to impliement ethernet is easy, the APIs are widely avaliable and the hardware is dirt cheap. I beleive that playing to the lowest common denominator is a good thing but I also beleive providing next level options is the key to the future.
Likux is not in a sorry state. When you get up close I've seen countless people go "And did you say this stuff was all free?" Then that's usually followed by comments on how robust this OS is and how it's really in a postition to start compeating w/ the enterprise Unixes (Solaris, IRIX, Tru64, ect.) out there. These are pople who though Linux was not ready for enterprise untill theay really took a good hard long look at it. So in my experence the reverse is true. There's not enough publicity and when people who know what it is there looking at take a closer look theay are usualy plesently suprised at the power and comunity support behind Linux.
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I agree without a doubt that so called "Internet Appliances" should have a ethernet connection. Yes, of course I realize that most americans do not have a ethernet network inside the home. However we need to use technology to help progress the state of networked america. I say follow the Audiotron's (http://www.audiotron.net) exampe, it not only has HPNA2 for people in homes without ethernet AND ethernet for homes that do. Providing this sort of option will not only satisy the needs of everyone but it will help set ethernet networks as the standard in homes across america as well as raising demand for quality broadband connections. With demand we will see higher saturation and lower prices. For a company to impliement ethernet is easy, the APIs are widely avaliable and the hardware is dirt cheap. I beleive that playing to the lowest common denominator is a good thing but I also beleive providing next level options is the key to the future.
Likux is not in a sorry state. When you get up close I've seen countless people go "And did you say this stuff was all free?" Then that's usually followed by comments on how robust this OS is and how it's really in a postition to start compeating w/ the enterprise Unixes (Solaris, IRIX, Tru64, ect.) out there. These are pople who though Linux was not ready for enterprise untill theay really took a good hard long look at it. So in my experence the reverse is true. There's not enough publicity and when people who know what it is there looking at take a closer look theay are usualy plesently suprised at the power and comunity support behind Linux.