[ale] Just a thought and a question for everyone...

[Paul Cartwright]

On Fri November 23 2007, Ned Williams wrote:
> Evening Ale'ers...
> I just had a thought after seeing a local news reference to walmart's
> 200 dollar PC...aka the Linux machine that slashdot and everyone else
> covered last week. So I wondered..could a group like Ale either (a)
> find and recyle with a ale built linux image or (b) source parts and
> design a ale built linux image for LESS than 200...Now this might be
> pie in the sky and all, but since a group like ALE could do something
> like this for no profit one has to wonder could the lack of profit
> along with donated time equate to a PC producable and sellable for
> whoever for less than 199? ?Recycling would require developing a
> minimum hardware requirement and parts sourcing might require finding
> system requirement generic enough to survive unreliable vendors such
> that if a particular part becomes unavailble or turns out to be a bad
> part it can easily be replaced without effecting kernel and general OS
> build performance and ?feature list.

freeitathens does it for $25 each..
http://freeitathens.org/


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Paul Cartwright
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