Re: Cheap PC distro's

[Francis Cianfrocca <francis@tempest.com>]

Rob Enderle (god rest him) says that connect speed is usually the 
bottleneck with online tasks, not the processor. (I think he's in favor 
of this product.) But I've talked to plenty of home users lately who all 
say that dialup is plenty fast enough for what they do online- I was 
totally shocked at that, but it does explain the slow uptake of 
broadband in U.S. consumer markets (which are not subsidized). It also 
may be a validation point for this toaster product. Comments? Flames?
-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