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About ThinCan.org
- Artec Group's green computing solution — the ThinCan™ — has won numerous awards, as early as the 1990's, for its innovative design. Energy-efficient, small and completely noise-free, the ThinCan is ideal for business, educational and governmental organizations that desire a maintenance-free and unobstructive desktop computing solution.
- OEM customers are also welcome to bulk order customized ThinCan versions, as a specialized low-power small-footprint information and telecommunication solution running embedded Linux and equipped with unique hardware features to match the OEM's own particular networked appliance needs.
- This wiki exists to help developers and OEM partners find the resources they need to develop applications and OS images for this open hardware platform.
FAQ
Can I buy ThinCan hardware and development tools as a private individual?
- Absolutely! Simply visit our online shop.
Your ThinCan looks suspiciously similar to the Linutop...
- Linutop SARL buys their hardware from us.
Some of Artec's BIOS images mix GPL components with commercial components. Isn't that against the GPL?
- The Etherboot homepage states that:
Note that distributing the Etherboot binary aggregated on a storage medium with other programs, e.g. as an extension BIOS in a BIOS chip, does not constitute linking with the other program and does not make that other program fall under the GPL. So if you distribute BIOSes, have no fear that distributing Etherboot this way will require distributing your BIOS under the GPL.
