[PLUG] Cheap Linux Tablet PCs

["Jeff 'Jephree' Mealo" <jeph@whydefy.us>]

Hello,

This is my first E-mail to the group, my name is Jeff (Jeph/Jephree for short) 
Mealo.  I am a student and freelance programmer/webdesigner.  I also do some 
eBay and webhosting on the side (http://whydefy.us).

I've had two good ideas so far regarding the manipulation of cheap handheld 
computers to do things we normally have to pay big bucks for:

1) Cybikos ($5-15) for anything needing an LCD, 15MHz RISC Proc + 4MHz Atmel 
Coproc for it's RF which works within 300ft outdoors, 1MB flash and a free 
devkit.

2) More importantly: One of us who has some cash and likes to try something 
and write tutorials *cough could try: getting an older 233MHz~400MHz tablet 
(Fujitsu seems to be the biggest maker of tablets within these specs) and run 
Flux or another low-resource/low-res window maker. :) Use that handy dandy 
PCMCIA port for a Wireless card and... Wireless messaging, surfacing and 
SSH'ing into your box all from the comfort of your couch.

Off-topic: Printing from Slackware 9 using Samba to an HP Deskjet 3820 on 
Windows XP... Fun?

(Why isnt there just a Samba printer driver you load, as a parent driver and 
you can use child drivers for it on non *nix O/Ses that support the hardware 
that'll be used. Or has this already been done?)

If anyone else thinks this is a good idea maybe we could try it as a group? 
Please share your ideas.

Thanks,
Jeph

P.S. Looking forward to more PLUG E-mails coming my way.
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