[SLL] Zonbu?

[Robert Nelson]

Looks promising, so I wish them much success. But feel that you can
accomplish most of what there offering bu turning off your PC, getting
online storage, etc. They do get points for not using Microsoft.

On 8/12/07, Glenn Stone <technoshaman at liawol.org> wrote:
>
>
> A random blogger posted this link:
>
> http://www.zonbu.com/home/index.htm
>
> It's apparently a Flash-based PC that's sort of a semi-thin client.... all
> the apps are local, and there is local storage, but it is backed up across
> the net "continuously" on a subscription-based service...
>
> From what I can tell, it runs Gentoo (?!?!!) (/me wonders if they're
> pre-building packages?) and *should* be eminently hackable... the problem
> I
> have with buying it straight off the shelf is that I don't care for my
> data
> being somewhere I don't trust... and a startup, one that doesn't even have
> an Investors page yet, is the ultimate target to be leaned on for data by
> anybody with enough lawyers, one really good one being sufficient.  But
> the
> device?  Intrigues me.
>
> (Still want a grownup model of the OLPC.  But this would be close,
> certainly
> a desktop replacement.)
>
> Comments encouraged... this is intriguing enough that I want to know what
> y'all think.
>
> -- Glenn
>
>


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