A Little Linux

It's been a year since Mirus announced Koobox, a new line of desktop PCs that come loaded with Linux. The first offerings were standard tower configurations, starting at $299, pre-loaded with Linspire's latest distro. Then last summer the company added a Mac-Mini-like unit with a mouse/keyboard/speaker bundle for $399.99 (after a mail-in rebate). Since then they've been adding other Mini models, scaled upwards with faster CPUs, bigger drives and features like DVD+RW.

Mirus is a subsidiary of Equus, a Microsoft Patinum OEM and Gold Certified Partner, yet calls itself "The Largest Whitebox System Builder to the Channel", and was named by CRN as #1 out of the 50 system builders. It'll be interesting to see how they do.

- Doc Searls

[Note: I've requested a photo or usable artwork. - DS]