Gief me that redundant now because i will make sure i deserve it. it's a FLUKE. A Hoax. A Fake. Hocus Pocus. Groundless MumboJumbo. This computer is not an actual product. It's someone with a particularly slow day at the office in need of some attention (that doesn't involve a pay cut) that pulled you a good joke. And for the record a design like that wouldn't be a flop only if it was twice as portable as the eeepc with none of the downsides. That clunky sad excuse for a k10 science project ripoff could have been made by a bored 16 dude that visited a pc modding forum for the first time yesterday by buying parts at his local Walmart. The pictures on that site have not been concocted by anyone with an even pale idea of what the words "design" (and not the fashiony meaning of the word, here i'm talking even about the bare minimum functional design issues) or "engineering" means.

And those most likely completely correct legal statements of yours (and the fact i've had national healthcare since the day i was born) are what still makes me proud of living in the old Europe no matter how shit, completely illegal, corrupt and misled my government can be. (and please note that as a citizen i'm doing whatever i can to change that)

Since when it's legal or illegal to run your own software on whatever hardware you want? As long as it's not child pornography (and you bought it if it's proprietary software), in the privacy of your home you can run osx or beos or Xenix on whatever hardware you manage to make it run on (if you have legal rights of some kinds on the hardware that is). The situation you're referring to as illegal is probably the one of Psystar. A System Integrator that started *selling* system with OSX pre-installed. That's a whole different beast :)

Slashdotted, nice! Anyway, the site i meant was the homepage of this supposed "manufacturer" that licensed Commodore's brand. Here is the link. http://www.commodoreusa.net/index.html It's ludicrous :P

Look. at. the. site. It's a chinese 3rd rate gadget imitator wet dream. There is a pseudo-configuration page vaguely mimicking Dell's one with no functionality. No logo. No design. and GOD that heinous thing in the pictures looks CLUNKY and CHEAP. This is a hoax. /. have seen several in the past years tied to the good old C64. I'm very surprised it made the front page :(

Standard behaviour on current and somewhat current hardware is to get those infos through EDID. If that doesn't work, just get the user manual for the display and supply the settings by hand in xorg.conf from there. I think i'm pretty sure that *any* kind of plain computer display with standard interface connections (vga, dvi, hdmi) will work. Might be fun to know of exceptions. But i don't think there are.

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