[MLUG] Zonbu

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This new "Zonbu" thing is a really interesting use for Linux (Gentoo, in 
fact).  I'm very surprised that "everyone" has been talking about it but I 
hadn't heard of it today.  Here are a bunch of articles (possibly a biased 
sample because they were selected by the Zonbu people):

http://www.zonbu.com/why_zonbu/reviews.htm

Interestingly, they haven't been talking about Zonbu much at Mizzou:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=zonbu+site%3Amissouri.edu

They seem to have some clever ideas and I can imagine this going 
somewhere.  I like the idea of a low-energy laptop with flash drive and 
wifi allowing most data to be stored remotely.

Some people think I'm crazy, but I think a central server with many thin 
clients connecting to it is a great way to go.  It solves a lot of 
problems, especially for certain kinds of working teams.  Once we have 
some kind of always-available-no-matter-where-you-are wireless network 
system, everyone will get what I'm talking about.

Mike

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