[Deaf-lug] Haiku

[JGJones]

My primary laptop is a Dell Vostro 1500 - it's a very very heavy laptop!

If I'm going to somewhere like a trade show which I am increasingly
likely to do in my job - I'll want something small and light that I
could whip out and make notes and go online/send emails etc. EEEpc fits
there very well. Or for on the plane or other travels (which again I'm
more likely to do soon (although not around the world :-( ) with ripped
movies and so on - the EEEpc is seriously small. Hell you even find them
in Toy'r'us these days now! :-)

Cheap? An EEEpc cost about £200. That's it. Also great for kids if you
want to get them a laptop as an alternative to the OLPC.

As for where do I have the space? That's why most of my systems are
laptops - they're easy to put away. Two are work laptops, one is
wifey's. The server is a Shuttle box (it's quite small and goes under
the TV easily enough) so you don't actually notice much computers in the
house! ;-)


On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 15:38 +0000, Fintan Gaughan wrote:

> I have heard of it.. never tried it.
> there is also AmigaOS4.0 which suprised me that was still going.
> 
> Distros  I have tried are most Linux varant
> BSD
> Hurd.
> 
> Why are you getting a EEEpc when you already have a laptop of some kind?
> I love to get my childen (OLPC)  but first I need to get one but I am
> so poor :-(
> 
> 
> Fintan
> 
> On 13/02/2008, JGJones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com> wrote:
> >
> >  I wonder if any of you heard of BeOS?
> >
> >  This was what started me on the Linux actually even though it's not Linux.
> > BeOS is now a dead OS, that *might* had been the replacement for OS9, but
> > they went with NeXT instead along with Steve Jobs.
> >
> >  However when I used it, I always loved the fast speed of it. Anyway a new
> > project to bring back to life BeOS is called Haiku which is programmed from
> > grounds up to be as similar as possible to BeOS (ie booting up in seconds
> > (and I mean that...seconds - BeOS is FAST).
> >
> >  They do have VMWare images so that you can try it out in VMWare Player
> > (free) and the boot up time in VMWare player is screamingly fast - took less
> > than 3 seconds in my case.
> >
> >  Was thinking that if this is fast it would make for an ideal replacement OS
> > for an EEEpc if I get one - since for an EEEpc I would only want internet
> > and email access and basic office suite (ie Abiword would be ideal)
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