Linpus rolls out Linux-based OS aimed at low-cost laptops / UMPCs
By Donald Melanson 
posted Feb 27th 2008 1:22PM
posted Feb 27th 2008 1:22PM
While its claim of being the "first" to offer an OS specifically designed for the latest crop of low-cost laptops and UMPCs may be a little dubious, the unfortunately-named Linpus is at least pretty quick to jump on the bandwagon. To that end, the company's just let loose its Linpus Linux Lite OS, which it says will run just fine on laptops like the Eee PC and Cloudbook, or any other system with as little as a 500MHz CPU, 128MB of RAM and 512MB of storage. Just as importantly, the OS is also apparently designed with low-res 7-inch screens in mind, although as CLUMPC points out, it doesn't go so far as to include support for little things like built-in WiFi out of the box. Still, if you want to give it a shot, you can grab it now in the form of a Live CD direct from Linpus.
And for Saint Patrick's Day, try Cookie-O-Puss.
I shall try this post haste!
Bond definitely would've lost to Octopussy had he been reliant on Lin-pus.
Linpus, meet VMWare.
Linpus meet Bagpuss..
I think I'll wait for the Pandora.
OK... on the serious side of the Linpus scale... I have already tried Linpus on my Raon Digital Everun... booted and failed a loading X.
tis a shame but I am pretty sure that the fight to get Bluetooth and Wifi working with Linux on the Everun would be a pretty huge hurtle.
Any idea what license this is being released under? Possibilities for cross-compiling for arm processors?
It's never Linpus.
And what's so funny about the name Linpus Dickus?
lost lunch @ "let loose its Linpus Linux Lite OS"
GUI = Epic Fail
Good job it'll be skinnable :P
I'll stick with Xandros for the moment on my new eeepc thanks. However I'm still wandering like a bemused culture shock victim through the murky forests of terminal commands and synpatic updates.
....Bill gates might have been on to something with this Windows thing you know
Probably the best and most truthful comment I have read in weeks.
Linpus == Linux for Pussy.... man, talk about bad name...
I guess it's unique in that it's designed for smaller displays, but really, if you have a machine with similar specs but a normal-sized display, why not just install Puppy Linux, Fluxbuntu, or Damn Small Linux?
"learn, work, play"
smells like the eee
Reminds me a lot of my N810 tablet turned sideways.
I have an eee, I'll give it a shot, it at least looks really nice.
Does it have tweaks to reduce writes?
I wanna know if I'm going to have to fix things for SSD.
Screenshot is incorrect... I'm getting a KDE taskbar instead of that dock thing.
Also the mouse isn't working. At all. So uhhh... ideas?
I say bring back RISC OS, 32bits in 8MB Rom and booted up instantly. With 500Mhz it would fly like shit off a stick :)
Rufus
Here's there server (slow as all hell)
http://www.linpus.com/xampp/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?cid=14&lid=13
Here's LinuxTrackers Torrent (if you download, please seed)
http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=7521efbf6e7e6fb7a1cbac220eec0dbe3d87ebd8&f=LinpusLinux-LiveCD-i386.torrent
You're best bet is the torrent. For anyone with success in running it either on there umpc or a VM feel free to respond to this comment with you're results/opinions.
I am a linux lover, but I cant say that im a linpus lover. If I used linpus before ubuntu, today im still using xp. Linpus is a very small operating system and that part is right. On the other hand, few applications can be installed and I do not think that users can access the terminal
can't get the shit to install on vmware, i can run live cd, mouse works fine, but on install, the mouse just jumps around like crazy, and when i finalley get to push a few buttons, it just restarts...
tried making a liveUSB, without luck, used "fedora liveUSB creator". it just fails halfway through, giving me this error...
[gui:343] Device is not yet mounted, so we cannot determine the amount of free space. Setting a maximum limit of 8G for the persistent storage.
maybe someone else has had more luck than me