Linpus. Lunpus. Where have I heard that name before? CES, i’m sure……No. Here it is, a video demo from last year that JKKMobile picked up. There’s also a stack of news about this from CES. At GottaBeMobile for example.
Linpus Lite is a ‘new’ distribution from a Taiwanese company has a dual-mode easy/advanced user interface and is targeted at 4-7″ screens.
Linpus Linux Lite is our latest OS development for low-cost PCs like UMPC, OLPC, Classmate PC, MID and other consumer mobile devices. This new version of Linpus Linux distribution is designed to run smoothly and reliably on a lower-end hardware with processing power as low as 500 MHz, 128MB of DRAM and 512MB of storage space. With Linpus Linux Lite, you can surf the web, edit documents and photos, read e-book and email, play the music and games, enjoy the GPS navigation and VoIP service, etc.
Linux Watch took a closer look at the distro recently and there’s a nice quote in there from the Linupus sales and marketing people: “Specifically, we provide unprecedented levels of support for hardware vendors —- and we recently pioneered our own preload solution and have worked extremely hard to create stable sleep and suspend modes for notebooks,” Checking through some details on the Linpus website I see has touchscreen support. I’ve tried a number of distros in the past where the touchscreen didn’t work so this is interesting. I guess that’s my work sorted out for today. Where’s that Q1 P gone….
Discussion in the Linux/UMP forum. Anyone tested it yet? I’ve done some testing but full hardware support isn’t there yet. See forum for more details.
Update: The ISO download is crawling. Could take days to download. If anyone has a copy that they can upload to my server for re-distribution among UMPCPortal members, please contact me.
Update: I have a Linux Live CD distribution now. Available for members via the download link in the comments below.
Via Linux Devices.
