litl's technical secrets revealed!

[cananian]

Update: Lucas has written up some additional technical details - and he mentions our update system, which was one of the first bits I worked on when I arrived. We heavily dog-food the updater, using buildbot to push out the latest bits to developers every night.

Update 2: Welcome, slashdot! The videos at http://litl.com/support/ give a good idea

Comments

[notlosers]

This sounds incredible. Want!

[kosai]

Congrats! cscott has a big laptop database server in the sky, again. :)

-- cjb.

[cananian]

Again? More like I *finally* got my database server in the sky, instead of wrestling with a very-local neglected VM fitfully attempting to communicate across the Great Firewall of China...

[thargol]

I wish you luck. However, it seems to me that the price point is going to trip you up, particularly on a machine with no significant storage. No matter how much you position it as being able to use S3 or other remote storage, the reality is that a large part of the world simply isn't permanently connected to the net. Even in a technologically advanced country (I'm in the UK), as soon as I step out of my front door, I'm essentially screwed.

[cananian]

It's a home computer, for the first world. It's not an OLPC XO-1.