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USB Linux key targets netbooks

November 22, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 1 year ago

French mini-PC vendor Linutop announced a version of its Ubuntu 8.4-based Linux distribution on a USB key targeting Asus Eee PCs. The key (pictured) is based on its small-footprint Linutop 2.2 distro, which is designed for ultra-low-powered systems such as its own Linutop 2 mini-PC.

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Most likely illegal for sale in the US

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 68.90.69.174] on November 22, 2008 03:40 PM

The description lists VLC as one of the applications that is pre-loaded. Since VLC uses multimedia codecs that are patented in the US, they would have to pay licensing fees (lots of them) to legally sell it here. My guess is they aren't. Since the EU doesn't recognize software patents, they should be fine selling there, though.