We already introduced Dell's new laptop wonder, the Z600, to you earlier this week. What makes this laptop special is that it contains a small ARM motherboard which runs a special version of openSUSE Linux, allowing for instant access to basic functionality like checking email, browsing the web, and playing multimedia files. What's news, at least for OSNews, is that research from Dell has shown that people spent 70% of their time in the Linux environment.
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Member since:2009-05-06
If it is to allow playing of multimedia files, it follows it can mount the NTFS disc. So if you want to run ClamAV over the NTFS disc, I would be very surprised if you couldn't.
My bet is a Linux geek can get what ever they want out of the ARM Linux.
Some times it is worth replacing the Linux on a device, maybe even a toaster, exactly so you can take it beyond what it was designed for. Guess you don't see the point of OpenWRT either. Often Linux devices come locked down only to do the thing they where built for, swap out the Linux and it becomes another computer for whatever you see fit. In OpenWRT case, maybe hosting your own website and downing torrents to a NAS, or just waking your PC when your remote connecting. It's a "real" computer now, it's limit is its RAM/CPU, what's worth doing, and you.
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2006-11-24
it is what it is, ok? Now then, what is it?
There had to be at least that one comment again that had to make known that you are not happy with Suse. I guess "you will not buy it" if you cannot do any of these things, right?
"allowing for instant access to basic functionality like checking email, browsing the web, and playing multimedia files"
People who want a quick start software for this purpose exactly DO NOT want any of the things you want, and most certailny they do not want to replace Suse all together for starters. It is not meaningful to ask whether you can install Xubuntu pre-Alpha on your new Linux-powered Panasonic toaster either only because it happens to be powered by Linux. It is also not meaningful to further ask whether you could then move on and do a backup of your Linux-cluster with it because it is not made for this. Get on with it