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Re: Debian in the sunshine?



On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:07:04PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader.  
> It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen 
> would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the 
> summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens 
> are a complete washout.  No, I don't expect to be able to watch videos on 
> an e-ink screen.  But the kind of (non)dynamism that occurs when editing 
> code in emacs should be easily achievable.
> 
> Anybody know of any hardware that could be used (or, if necessary, 
> abused) for this purpose?  Preferably with bog-standard Debian?
> 

The only sunlight-readable display on a general purpose
computing device capable of running Debian of which I am aware
[deep breath] is the OLPC XO-1 (and 1.5, 1.75).

-dsr-


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