Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:32, Martin Jungowski wrote:
> Indeed that would be awesome! $169 for a computer, $0 for Knoppix 3.3
> and it would rock the Linux world for sure...
> I bet one could even get non-computer people go buy one of these and
> play with it because most people spend more money on cloths per month
> that they would have to spend on that computer.
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> While we're on that subject, does anyone in here have any Lindows
> experience? I remember that several years ago when it was first
> announced, there was rumors about a "100% MS Windows compatible Linux"
> that "will run every Windows application out of the box". Did they
> really achieve that?
They dropped that claim even before 1.0 shipped, I believe.
> I have to admit that after that announcement, I paid little to no
> attention to Lindows except the fact that they got sued by Microsoft and
> the fact that Walmart was offering Lindows-PCs for $199.
>
> Martin
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> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:29, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Or as a firewall, etc if burned onto CD.
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> > http://info.lindows.com/webstation/
> > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=608176
> >
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