[ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

[Rob Beard]

John Levin wrote:

> Anyone have any idea what distro 
> it will be running?
> 
> John
> 

According to The Inquirer (link: 
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-specs-leaked) 
it's going to be running Debian.

At first I thought it might be Arm based since Debian has an Arm port 
(and because ARM chips are low power, cheap etc) but then I found 
details of the Vortex86 system on a chip, I haven't got the link to the 
site I found earlier (I submitted it to the comments on The Inquirer but 
it's not come up at the moment), but I found this...

http://www.vortex86sx.com/products.html

It fits the bill, the other site was talking about an embedded PC board 
with 128MB DDR2 memory on there, so I assume they might have been able 
to either use a load of these boards (iirc the size was about 3 inches 
square) or some custom made.

Rob