Pablo Manalastas wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Ted Perez wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to figure out a way to build a pure Linux web browsing
> > appliance (ala Larry Ellison's / Oracle's NIC--New Internet Computer) using
> > readily-available off-the-shelf PC components. Siyempre, it's got to be
> > dirt cheap. Target cost <= $300.
>
> Your real problem is flash memory management under Linux. You have to
> write the low-level stuff (patch the kernel) to manage flash. The kernel
> has to boot from flash, and then flash will be used as an ext2 filesystem.
> But this has already been done in the Philippines looong agoooo.
Been there, done that. But Doc Mana knows all about this. Oh, the
stories I could tell, but for my NDAs!
> Write to Ritchie Lozada (formerly with Evoserve/Edsamail), but now
> with Microsoft (web marketing?).
Actually, Ritchie left Evo a couple of months before we formed Edsamail.
> Some members of his team might still
> be lurking around here. Anyone of Ritchie's team around?
Yeah.
> PMana
Brian
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