Zonbu - the 100.00 USD Linux box

[yoda313]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/11228



I saw this on yahoo tech. I did search here and nobody posted it yet so I thought I would.

This is an interesting concept - a micro pc that runs on linux. For a 100.00 it has no harddrive - a flash drive is built in. It runs open source software like open office and for a 13.00 a month fee you get online storage space and other features.

It sounds neat to an extent. There is supposed to be a feeless onetime purchase option as well. No monitor or keyboard included though. It is really small. It sounds like an advanced webpc concept.

Might be worth it to some to look into if you don't need a high end computer or don't want to spend two or three hundred dollars for the barest minimum real pc.

[the_man_one]

ya can get these with a full op system called DSL (damn small linux) its a 50 mb operating system... check it out http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ <<<< the OS ... its a bit more than the 100 u posted but its super small $350ish http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Damn_Small_Machine <<<<<<<<<<the pc itself