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Re: [LUG] OT- Cheap Laptop + ARM netbooks

 

You can get Windows for the ARM platform - but it consists of Windows CE and Windows Mobile, so in the context of netbooks it still sucks! ;)

Mind you, you can pick up a netbook installed with Windows CE here (not that you'd want to!) here: http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Menq-EasyPC-E790/


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2009/11/21 Dan Dart <dandart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ARM doest run Windows

Who cares? Windows is irrelevant.
Most devices running ARM are stuff like phones, PVRs, etc. And
netbooks aren't going to be stopped!
I am currently making the web frontend portion of my GUI OS, which
will run Linux or BSD on backend...
This will actually run fast unlike many other OSes on low end
hardware, as it will only have a browser.

Why BSD? Because the project is BSD licensed - it would be nice if the
whole lot was - but rhen, who makes
BSD licensed browsers? I can only find Chromium - and not all of it is!

Cheers
Dan

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