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Open PC is a new project that aims to create and sell a Linux-based computer designed openly by Linux users.
This sort of idea is not new, but it is still interesting. It’s hard to know what companies like Dell are really going for with their Linux PCs, especiallly since their main business is based on Window PCs. With a community designed PC, though, the full attention is being put on making it a great machine for Linux, not a Windows machine that runs Linux.
There are also some issues, though. At this point, I simply don’t think entirely open collaboration is possible without a few leaders who make the final decisions.
It may or may not be Open PC, but community-designed computers may eventually be very successful, since they focus exclusively on LInux, not on other OSs.
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@Anonymous: Why does it need to run Google’s OS? I mean, seriously, Debian can fill any need you can every have! Or Fedora. Or Gentoo. (not Ubuntu, btw, since its default theme is too ugly for me
).
Anyway, the project sounds better than it actually is. I hoped something akin to OpenPandora, but it clearly is not. Survey? A limited for that!
unless they make an ARM based, 11.6 ” netbook with Pixel Qi display, with integrated 3G and 8h+ battery, that runs googles newly announced OS, i dont see the appeal.