Reader Gregg has shared another suggestion for Mr. Zonbu’s readers:
For anyone that’s interested, here is a long audio interview with Zonbu’s competitor Koolu CEO Andrew Greig. It’s episode# 208
I have to confess that I have not tried various other systems, and the KoolU does intrigue me, especially their OS choice.
Has anyone out there played with one yet?
-Mr. Zonbu
Real life with the Zonbu Mini-PC 
Wow, and here I thought the Zonbu was a brand new start, but it looks like there’s plenty of great and similar stuff out there already! The KoolU really looks good, and even runs Ubuntu! I should’ve done my research, huh? 🙂
well, i prefer my zonbu to be honest, the zonbu processor is more than 2x faster than the koolu, the zonbu has 6 usb ports while the koolu has 4 and you can’t use a ps2 mouse and keyboard so you have to use at least 1 usb port.
The os of choice however is much better than the gentoo distribution that is being used by the zonbu.