Re: Cheap PC distro's

[Francis Cianfrocca <francis@tempest.com>]

Mike, isn't the point here that a consumer is buying a self-contained 
"web appliance"? You're quite right, having this be o-bsd based will be 
wonderful (and valuable), but maybe it doesn't fit the economic model. 
(In this case, no support is eceonomically possible- it's like buying a 
Norelco.) Would we treat the toaster as essentially a white-box and 
resell it?
-f

Mike Shaw wrote:

> I'm thinking of buying one of these as a Christmas gift for my little 
> munchkin:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/12/05/sproject.hs02.cheap.pc.reut/index.html 
>
>
> Since this hardware is a known quanity, it'd be interesting to cobble 
> together a consumer grade BSD distro with all the goodies enabled 
> (provided it will run on this toaster).  Do any of you folks that 
> routinely set up OpenBSD desktops for average users have raw material 
> of this nature?
>
> -Mike