What you can get me for Christmas

[Eddie Chang]

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

[Lord of Ancients]

That's freakin' beautiful, if only it were Mac.

[Náriël Telemnar]

I saw this a while back, it really is beautiful...and running Ubuntu most certainly will feel like computing in the 19th century.

[Eddie Chang]

I saw this a while back, it really is beautiful...and running Ubuntu most certainly will feel like computing in the 19th century.

I know nothing of the operating system. I just like the box design.

[Brand Nar Gath]

I used to have one of these.  it was called a TRS -80 and it had  a silver matte black finish.  no clawed feet, however.

[Náriël Telemnar]

I saw this a while back, it really is beautiful...and running Ubuntu most certainly will feel like computing in the 19th century.

I know nothing of the operating system. I just like the box design.

Here's the proof:

[Eddie Chang]

I saw this a while back, it really is beautiful...and running Ubuntu most certainly will feel like computing in the 19th century.

I know nothing of the operating system. I just like the box design.

Here's the proof:

So, what is the story on Ubuntu? It sounds like an operating system with a bone through its nose.

[Náriël Telemnar]

So, what is the story on Ubuntu? It sounds like an operating system with a bone through its nose.

It does sound that way. It is one of the more mainstream distros of Linux. So it's kind of like trying to have Mac OS X's graphical interface on top of Unix, but without being nicely designed and useful like Apple's version, with crappy PC hardware and with little good commercial software. Instead of Photoshop you would be stuck with The GIMP.