Mint Usability

Youre probably smart enough to figure out what in my opinion is a great way for generating that magic buzz around your open source commitment. Yeap, I claim that it has something to do with user interfaces. (Well, isn’t that news)

Three years ago I happened to stumble upon interesting project called ReactOS; a “free version” of Microsoft Windows – open source (blackboxing Windows components) and able to run Windows applications out of the box. Sounds sweet BUT… There’s always a catch. The thing that struck my eyes was the user interface, not because it just was so sweet, far from it. It struck my eyes because it was far from attractive, which in my eyes, was doing good job of destroying the appeal of the whole software. Hence, I decided I wanted to pitch in.

Now, years later I stumbled upon the same project and I even found mockups I made for the project from my harddrive. This provoked some thougths.

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Just have to post this. Want a ultra-light and easy to use tablet under $200? I know I do. Here’s the deal:

Michael Arrington from CrunchGear decided to start a project to create ultra-portable open source tablet. It would would have one button to power up the device, it would fire straight to Firefox with no desktop environment. Low end speakers, mic and web camera would be integrated, touch screen providing control input. Half a gig of RAM and 4 GB SDD included.

They have already in the talks with manufacturer who says it could be produced for ~200$, all they need is custom software to make it all happen. Want to help? Check the link below and go for it!

TechCrunch