2009/11/11 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > 2009/11/11 Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com>: >> On 11/11/09 08:46, Sean Miller wrote: >>> Anyone else think £390 for a base unit is somewhat expensive??? >> >> Yes, it does seem quite pricey. >> > > Tricky > >> On this video on the BBC >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8353468.stm with RCJ the developer >> does say it is built on top of Linux Mint. >> > > Liam (the guy in the video) is on this mailing list. > > Interesting for a few reasons. I like the idea of a nice simple > "dashboard" style interface. Reminds me of the old Xandros (debian > based) distro which shipped with the Eee PC originally. I'm also > interested in it being Linux Mint. As I understand it Mint ships with > stuff that Ubuntu doesn't out of the box. Things like codecs and > Flash, so everything "just works". I thought Flash was not re > distributable (which is why it's not actually in the Ubuntu repository > at all).
Read that the interface is Eldy which is freely downloadable from http://www.eldy.eu/ for Linux and that Windows thing. So it's £300+ for a stand alone desktop with a slow CPU and no mention of hard disk space or memory, running a free operating system with an additional free interface. I think theres a bit of profit in that. Simon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
