I'm excited to see small low power pc's become commodity. I think there will be a lot of cool open source software coming out to help nerds turn them into various digital appliances.
I know I can already do this with existing hardware (and software) given enough effort - but I think prepackaged units spur existing technologies to be made more friendly. See what happened with OSS router firmware for an example of alpha geeks polishing and packaging software for the beta geeks to run on low power commodity hardware.
I know I can already do this with existing hardware (and software) given enough effort - but I think prepackaged units spur existing technologies to be made more friendly. See what happened with OSS router firmware for an example of alpha geeks polishing and packaging software for the beta geeks to run on low power commodity hardware.