Ubuntu on OQO
Paul Cooper
pgc at openadvantage.org
Sun Jul 17 17:31:52 CDT 2005
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 12:33 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Paul Cooper wrote:
>
> >Today OQO (www.oqo.com) who make an amazing, if expensive, little
> >computer, officially announced, in their newsletter, their unofficial
> >support of Ubuntu linux. I'd already stumbled upon their packages and
> >howto (via google) and can confirm that it all works - we've got it
> >running on a couple of our OQO's and it rocks.
> >
> >
> This is *such* a cool little box. I have at least one potential customer
> that is currently considering tablet PC's, and I wonder what sort of
> volumes OQO can provide?
Not sure about volumes, however bear in mind that unlike alot of other
tablet pc's the OQO doesn't have a hard topped screen, it's softer LCD
like a palm. I haven't found it as accurate as other tablet type screen,
however I would imagine that for most uses this wouldn't be an issue.
Paul
> Mark
>
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