If you stay online long enough, you’re bound to find convergences in ideas where you weren’t looking for them.
Here’s where my net trail led me:
Reading news: Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace prize, along with the IPCC.
Shopping: While looking for a cheap computer (a refurburbished laptop, a bare-bones desktop?) that I could put Edubuntu onto (you know, for the children), I found that the fit-PC exists, and that it is linux (and Ubuntu) compatible. And it sounds very cool (and it’s tiny, and cheap, and sips electricity).
Still shopping: I then found that there are actually a whole class of tiny systems which have evolved while I was busy trying to figure out other things.
On a tangent: Including (perhaps my favorite for my purposes), the Koolu, which comes with Ubuntu installed.
Really distracted now (what was I doing again?): Finally, I stumble across this story, which features Al Gore talking about embedded devices saving the planet.
Off in the weeds. Cue Flash Gordon theme: video.
OK. Random section complete. Remember Koolu and fit-PC. I’ll be looking for reviews of them and others in the future (if you’ve seen any, feel free to point me to them).
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