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In a recent article over at OSNews, the venerable Eugenia Loli-Queru talks about what it would take to make a successful "$99 Laptop" - or as he clarifies, a "handtop" PDA/laptop hybrid. He points out that software selection for such a machine would be as, if not more, important than the hardware. He suggests a suite of applications that should be pre-installed for a solid user experience:
Applications pre-installed: Web browser with JS/CSS/SSL support (Konqi, or Minimo if made to work with 32 MBs of RAM), mini Kontact-like PIM app, stripped KOffice, 4-5 games, file manager/search, Todo, text editor with HTML syntax highlighting, PDF viewer, video player and equivelant browser plugins for popular formats, music player, Flash plugin, Java-lite, Calculator, enough Preferences/Settings, IM for 5 protocols, simple painting app, image viewer, un/zipping utility, RSS reader, Skype, SSH/Terminal services/S/FTP/WebDAV/SMB/VNC stuff, a terminal and maybe a Blog client & IRC client.
The most interesting bit here being that he thinks a "blog client" is potentially important enough to make the cut of factory installed selections. We've come a long way, baby.


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