The Coolest Linux Product Of The Year 2006!

pretty snazzy...but i wouldnt call this "the best" linux product out there.....personally i'd take a Tux plush doll over a dell snap cover any day.

let me ask ya...what happens when you don't wanna use SUSE anymore? Now you need to get a new snap cover.

Oh, but why would you ever want to stop using suse?

Were do you just get blank snap covers is what I want to know. And Tux is a pimp.

My vote for 2006 Linux product of the year:
http://www.nokiausa.com/770

Technically I think that was 2005, the only reason I haven't brought it up, and the 870 on its way for my 2007 product if it gets released with the specs I believe it will and in January like I suspect.

Other than that though I gotta agree with CJCox, the 770 is great.

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I actually want to get a hold of one of those $100 olpc machines (but for $100, not that $350 cause i'm a rich westerner crap).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

That would be a kick ass extra work machine if I could get rails, gimp and maybe mysql loaded on it.

shouldn't be a huge deal to do so on the OLPC... the sugar interface is just, well, the UI... you can still run everything else on it from the CLI if nothing else.

-olly

thank you, im glad i am not the only one that ownes one of these! I am really starting to like Maemo with its repositories and what not. I am interested to see now the 800 performs, im heading out to CompUSA today to see if they ahve any in stock.

I use my 770 for everything, but mainly as a music player, both MP3 and internet radio. Also its super handy to check my email without getting my laptop out.

I don't own a 770... but I know of someone that owns one and I was impressed by the device and the community support.

thoughtfix.blogspot.com

Good writeups on various functions of the 770.

The 800 looks very interesting, with doubled ram size, a faster processor and SD instead(Or rather with) the RS-MMC slots means that most of my problems with it seem to have probably been fixed.

Personally my 770 gets used for a variety of things...

PIM with the GPE suite of tools
Portable game player (Tuxpuck and Supertux, along with occasional Doom when I am bored enough)
VNC viewer. This is very handy for me as I use it to set levels for shows I design without having to be at the mix console, can't understate its use to me.
Overall swissarmy toolkit. Going to put a Ethereal/Kismet/Whatever else I come across for disagnosing when I need to.
Note taking(Especially during production meetings- useful to keeping me organized)
And last, book reader, or more specifically I keep the scripts I am working on on it so I always have access to them.

Freakin flexible thing, using the thumb keypad for typing I am getting decent in taking notes in notes, I was using an annotation program for it.

Speaking of annotation, the doubled ram and faster processor means that will become a much better option for me I believe so I can write notes directly on scripts I am working on. Extremely useful. Had problems with larger PDFs before, so this should be great. I will be heading out as soon as I can afford one to get an 800, probably use the 770 for remote control purposes after that, another things i use it for on occasion. Nothing like forgetting your remote to your laptop and using the web interface of VLC to remote control it, though the interface still needs a bit of work

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