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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: pm@zetnet.net (Paul Martin)
Date: 14 Jul 2001 13:03:38 GMT
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In article <j8eukts68qfrh1lo3flmkgpe1ufpqcanbt@4ax.com>,
	David Cantrell wrote:

> I've been using and sysadminning Linux for the past few years, and
> none of the distributions I've tried have been sufficiently
> idiot-proof to put in a consumer device*.  However, that doesn't mean
> that one couldn't be created.

[snip]

> * - nor is Windows.  How many consumer devices do you have to go
> through umpteen arcane menus and options to do something trivial?  Not
> even my VCR is as badly designed as Windows.

VCR implemented as embedded Linux system = Tivo.

-- 
Paul Martin <pm@zetnet.net>

References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "LordDaha" <look@signature.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>

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