BTW, while late night sneak reading from my son-in-law's computer library I read how ARM cpus were developed by a company called VLSI (very large scale integration). I believe they were once a Minnesota company in the days of Control Data and the super computer company ETA. It would be really nice to see some new hardware technology emerge. Iznogoud wrote: > I do not have much info to offer on the browsing thing. I would guess that > one would want their browser history to be available to them rather than to > some --albeit benevolent-- organization. > > There are pieces of hardware that run Linux and are gaining popularity. There > is this $200 ARM-based laptop. There are some "open" hardware platforms that > are under development. There is hardware that is "vetted" to not have any > backdoors, primarily in the BIOS, etc. I wish I had links to share, but > somebbody here will point them out, I am sure. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >