If you are in Brussels Sunday (24.02.2008) you must go to Fosdem. It is a meeting of the Free Open Source Community. As Java is an open source software since last year you will find some very interesting sessions about Java and the community around Java. One of them is related to JNode. So if you want to see JNode in action visit Fosdem.
Check the schedule of the session.
Yesterday I received from France my new toy: Linutop. It is a small computer running from an USB key. When I say small I mean very small: 9.3 x 2.7 x 15 cm. It doesn’t have a harddisk and it is power by an AMD Geode LX processor.
The installation kit
The entire OS is stored on the USB key. The kit came with an optimized version of Xubuntu LiveCD, the light brother of the Ubuntu. It comes with a few applications: Firefox for browsing, Gaim for instant messaging and AbiWord for office stuff.
The hardware configuration is:
The only thing that I don’t like about it is that the flash player doesn’t play flash movies very smooth. So you can not use this pc to play Youtube movies. But for browsing, chatting and write emails it is perfect. You can even use it as a home small server.
One of the things that that I like about it is that it doesn’t have a hard disk . So bye-bye movement parts. I can put this box in my pocket, I can put in my bag without any worry of breaking something.
I hope this week I can run my favorite OS JNode on this nice piece of hardware. The only problem is that the Linutop boots only from the USB and the JNode OS doesn’t have a good support for USB, but it boots very nice from the network. So I must put on the USB key the PXELinux to be able to boot from network. I hope also that the memory is enough to run JNode.
So I’ll be busy this week 
