$99 mini Linux PC coming this summer

OLPC XO, eat your heart out. There's a real $100 Linux PC on the block now and it's not just for developing markets. A company called Zonbu plans to sell a mini Linux PC starting this summer that comes packed with open-source applications for only $99. The catch? You have to subscribe to the company's online backup service ($12.95/month), which will allow you to compute from virtually anywhere with the device and share data with other PCs. The machine itself isn't much larger than a paperback book and sports 4GB of flash memory, Gentoo Linux and the usual open-source suspects (Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype). For the Linux enthusiast, this might just prove a deal that's too good to pass up.

For more on the Zonbu:
- see this Gizmodo article