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Tiny, cheap, and “green” Linux computers. And Al Gore. And Flash Gordon.

October 14, 2007 in Ubuntu, comment, linux, news, offtopic | No comments

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). Read the rest of this entry »