[nylug-talk] Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in embedded Linux??

[Brandorr]

Do the tablets have wired ethernet?

On 8/17/07, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
> > Gregg Levine wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin, your listening, should you chose to participate can you provide
> > > some physical examples of Embedded Debian? (Physical examples means
> > > hardware that displays it at work.)
> >
> > The Nokia tablets some of us have use a Debian known as Maemo.
> >
> > - Ron
>
> Hello!
> Thank you Ron for reminding me about that. I hadn't known that the
> little fellow ran that specie of Debian. Kevin, if you've got one of
> those little fellows, it will do. Or any of you who chose to attend
> the gathering.
>
> However, every time I visited Linux World Expo here in NYC, and
> reached the Embedded Debian space in the Dot Org space or the BOF
> space, (it would depend on the mood of the creators of the convention
> then.) I would see a collection of what are collectively or commonly
> called developer boards wearing LCD panels (or screens) displaying
> graphics and text and all of the things I would expect from Linux.
>
> The chap who ran the booth was just barely polite. At one of the
> events he even said, "Do I know you?" rather rudely. I nearly said "Of
> course you know me! I am the Doctor.", since by that time I was well
> known in certain regions of Cyberspace as the Doctor. But reason
> prevailed and I said "Not really." and asked for more information, or
> could he explain the obvious.
>
> I eventually reasoned that he was extremely tired from being up all
> day doing everything there, without even relief.
>
> So there you go, Ron, that's what I was thinking of.
>
> Anyway, Ron, folks, I had planned on bringing that up much earlier in
> the thread, but since Kevin mentioned the Embedded Debian crowd, and
> then you Ron confirmed the obvious regarding the Nokia gizmos I
> figured that this would be as good as any.
> --
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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