On 06/04/12 02:12 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
... what I am looking for is a hardware reader that is designed to respect my freedoms. Preferably one that runs a GNU/Linux system, and which I am allowed to tinker with. It does not have to work out of the box, and I am prepared to invest time in it and deal with bugs, as I would with a regular computer, provided it has a community around it to support it, as Linux distros do.
That could be a description of the OLPC XO. The factory installed system is Fedora Remix with Gnome and Sugar. DebXO can be installed. In ordinary ambient light the display works with back lighting. In bright ambient, the back light is turned down and you will see a monochrome reflective display. Users are involved in development and there are bugs to report and fix. Mostly it works well.
I found a XO-1.5 on eBay for about $110 + postage. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/ " "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary "