Given enough *qualified* eyeballs, all bugs are shallow =)

I'd be quite surprised to see a mouse that does not work under linux at all. But I bet there are some examples...

I haven't managed to **** mine up yet, maybe because I haven't actually done much with it.

I wonder if they're available in the US?

Does anyone reading this have any experience/recommendations w/ an equivalent that would work on this side of the pond?

Cool, the only good use for Bing I've heard of yet.

No, they don't seem to. I'll RTFM again.

Yeah, swiping across the screen to swap between desktops, and scrolling up and down. Have a tendency to go past things I want, or open things I don't want. I'll get used to it, in time.

What is the "Swiping" that is taking a bit of getting used to. -- I don't own one yet, so I don't understand.

Just installed Easy Debian on a microSD card, I think an ssh-client is included in it. "Swiping" is taking a bit of getting used to.

Yeah, I will be doing, after I familiarise myself with it. Getting cautious in my late middle-age. That's what attracted me to it, the fact that it's a mini-computer. More versatile than the average "smartphone".

Just bought one, after months of dithering. Arrived yesterday. Not done anything (except charge the battery) to it or with it, yet. Thanks for the Community SSU link.

I just installed the beta Mageia Linux on a HP Athlon 64 I recently purchased. The machine also have a small hd, 40gb & 512mb ram. I think I'll upgrade both of those and I will have a nice running machine. Mageia is running on it fairly well for now, it is the 64bit version.

Hey with 120 gig you will have enough room for 6 to 8 distros and even more if you want to squeeze.

The web OS platform was functionally backwards from everything out there. But if you are used to Nokias, then you should have no problem haha. It's nice to see that the WebOS platform isn't dead yet.

I'm just sad to see J2ME, Brew, and Brew MP all go away because of smart phones. Well Brew MP isn't quite dead, but I don't think anything useful is going to be made for it. Also, lets see where Samsung's bada platform goes haha.

I hope that the market doesn't become the big three iOS, Win7, Android... On the other hand, it's amusing to see the big 3 in the Home Computer market win out on the mobile device market.

I call it Android Linux or just Android. But I do not call Android, 'Linux'. Yes it uses the Linux kernel and it may use xorg and some other things as well as some gnu tools in the development process... but it's not really GNU/Linux which often gets shortened to Linux. I agree that if malware happens, it's going to happen on Android and not mainstream linux. But that's probably because they will be using the Android SDK to write the malware. However, I don't think it would be much of a step to seeing malware on linux after that.


As for the laser pointer/usb dongle, it probably just transmits regular left right arrow keycodes. This is what my bluetooth mouse does for the left/right scroll wheel tilt and the back/forward keys are really XF86Back/XF86Forward instead of mouse button 6/7. Unfortunately my left/right tilt is completely useless as it's a press/release event.