Where would I like to see Acorn go? To answer that let me refer to an Acorn Cybervillage news item for 1st July '98, "Corel to launch low cost but powerful 275MHz ARM-Linux computer".
The Netwinder, with
My dream would be a notebook Netwinder, with a RiscOS look and feel file manager, and with the Linux kernel, file manager and essential editing tools in an easily removable ROM.
Linux is much in the news these days. There are a lot of academics, for example, who, when supplied with a PC by their university, simply throw away the Microsoft software in exasperation and install Linux. What has held me back from doing the same has been
My belief/hope is that the Free Software Foundation and Linux have a secure future. Acorn could provide tremendous added value in this area, especially by developing and marketing a RiscOS look and feel GUI for Linux.
Why Stop with Look and Feel? - RISC OS in ROM
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