[TAG] Talkback:134/sevenich.html

[Michael Losh]

Maybe you have heard about this before, but in case you haven't... Puppy 
Linux is desiged to support booting from a USB flash drive, as well as 
Live-CD/DVD (with multi-session data saves, even to CD-R!) and more 
traditional types of installations.  If you are not familiar with Puppy 
LInux, you should take a look!  A few links:

  http://www.puppyos.com/
  http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1
  http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/

Puppy LInux would make a good base for experimenting with the 
highly-mobile form factors mentioned in the article.  To really get to 
the point of roll-up screens and cell-phone-sized CPU units, we might be 
better with a non-x86 platform (closer to a PDA CPU and chipset).  Linux 
might be still a good software base, but it will not be a standard PC 
platform at that point, making it easier to have a "clean" hardware and 
software architecture.  Just my thoughts.  I'd like to see to see the 
ultra-portable kit described in th article in reality!
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Mike Losh
Puppy Newbie / 25+ year microcomputer veteran.