Picture the scene in a dusty marketplace in rural England:
"Hear ye, Hear ye, total cost of parsnip ownership far outweighs that of turnips" proclaims a sonorous voice.
A silence descends as the proximate bumpkins consider this... Suddenly a crabbed voice heckles "You might well say that, you sell turnips!" "Yeah," heckles a second voice "Show us some proof". The turnip advocate considers this for a moment then produces a small, sweetly perfumed bag of gold from the recesses of his garment, "This is the total cost of owning a turnip, "And this" he says triumphantly producing a considerably more weighty bag, reeking of sweat and smeared with bile "Is the total cost of owning a parsnip."
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The selling point seems to be the x86 compatability, but linux already works on many embedded processors, and the thing is to slow to run windows.
"Hear ye, Hear ye, total cost of parsnip ownership far outweighs that of turnips" proclaims a sonorous voice. A silence descends as the proximate bumpkins consider this... Suddenly a crabbed voice heckles "You might well say that, you sell turnips!" "Yeah," heckles a second voice "Show us some proof". The turnip advocate considers this for a moment then produces a small, sweetly perfumed bag of gold from the recesses of his garment, "This is the total cost of owning a turnip, "And this" he says triumphantly producing a considerably more weighty bag, reeking of sweat and smeared with bile "Is the total cost of owning a parsnip."