They had these (JavaStation-1) where I went to university. They were kinda meh as I recall.
That is, until about six months to a year after they were installed. They now had linux installed instead. They still had wonky proto-optical-mice (required a special metallic reflective mousepad), but there was remarkably less latency in using them and IIRC they still had a window manager that looked similar to the one that came w/JavaOS. Struck me as a pretty clever way to recover the value of these nodes.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 10.4 ms ] threadThat is, until about six months to a year after they were installed. They now had linux installed instead. They still had wonky proto-optical-mice (required a special metallic reflective mousepad), but there was remarkably less latency in using them and IIRC they still had a window manager that looked similar to the one that came w/JavaOS. Struck me as a pretty clever way to recover the value of these nodes.