On Monday 14 January 2008 11:58 am, Mike Miller wrote: > 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 For those looking for more info on Zonbu there is a review of the Zonbu PC in the February 2008 issue of Linux Journal. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com http://www.jacku.com