While at the CeBit I meet up with a friend, he's quite in tune with the "linux" world and CeBit is a perfect spot for finding out what is new and different. He promised to show me some of the more interesting things going on in the Linux Park. I didn't nearly have time to see everything he was talking about and wasn't even able to grab some of the newest versions out but one of the ones I did come across was Linpus, they've been in business for awhile and are probably the most popular version of Linux in the China area (unconfirmed rumor from guy working the booth).
After chatting for a bit the guy gave me a Live CD to try out their "lite" version, they apparently sell mainly to manufacturing but have a few options for end users to. So while on the train home I loaded up VMWare on the MAC and installed from the CD and gave it a go.
Nice large GUI interface quite ideal for touch screen devices and super easy to use,
Linpus Linux distribution is designed to run smoothly and reliably on a lower-end hardware with processing power as low as 500 MHz, 128MB of DRAM and 512MB of storage space. With Linpus Linux Lite, you can surf the web, edit documents and photos, read e-book and email, play the music and games, enjoy the GPS navigation and VoIP service, etc.
I'm going to have to find some time to dig into the attic and find my old Handheld computer I think...
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