I don't really see this being the domain of Kickstarter: ASUS already makes a very cheap 'nettop' box, for example[1]. Commodity Linux boxes are hard: 1) they'

I don't really see this being the domain of Kickstarter: ASUS already makes a very cheap 'nettop' box, for example[1]. Commodity Linux boxes are hard: 1) they're small volume, so there's always a premium 2) at the low end there are very few people who even see the benefit of Linux. It's got to be a gift from a geek, basically 3) if you don't get tripped up by (2), you're probably capable enough to buy an EEE box and install Linux yourself I wish you guys the best, but I don't see this getting funded :( 1. http://www.asus.com/Eee_Box_PCs/ http://www.asus.com/Eee_Box_PCs/