“An “Endless Computers” Kickstarter project is pitching a Celeron-based PC for emerging markets starting at $169, featuring a new “Endless OS” Linux distro.
Egg-Shaped Mini-PC
The Endless Computer has a distinctive rounded design, but is otherwise a fairly ordinary low-end computer with a reasonable price tag. It runs on a dual-core, 1.58GHz Intel Celeron N2807 SoC from the most recent, 22nm Bay Trail generation. The computer is equipped with an HDMI port for plugging into a TV.
What sets the Endless Computer apart is the new Endless OS Linux distribution, said to be designed from scratch with the needs of emerging markets in mind. The GNOME-based, and according to VentureBeat, Fedora-based, OS is open source, with code already loaded on GitHub. According to an Endless rep responding to Kickstarter questions, “the application store and some of the applications bundled with Endless OS are currently proprietary, but we have plans to open up our development platform to third-parties in the future.”