On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Brian Wall wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008 10:43 AM, J Cruit <j at packetgod.com> wrote: > >> I did buy a Zonbu desktop a month or so ago, its small cute and quiet. >> But I can only say that I like the hardware as I wiped the system and >> am using it as my Myth Frontend box. Which it seems to be capable >> enough of, although sometimes it takes a few seconds to switch menus. > > Before you wiped it, did you happen to see which distro was installed on > it? I was trying to figure out what the Zonbu scheme was about, but their web pages weren't very well organized. It looks like I was getting my best information from the news articles linked from the Zonbu "reviews" page: http://www.zonbu.com/why_zonbu/reviews.htm According to the NY Times article, the distro is Gentoo: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/technology/16cheap.html The Zonbu PC also uses a Gentoo version of the Linux operating system and will come with a range of software applications like the Mozilla Firefox browser, Skype voice-over-Internet service, OpenOffice software suite and many games. I don't know that it's always Gentoo, but I would guess that makes it easier for Zonbu folks to maintain the boxes. Mike