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Re: [News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux Gets Many Rave Reviews

  • Subject: Re: [News] Ubuntu GNU/Linux Gets Many Rave Reviews
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:04:33 +0100
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  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that BearItAll spake thusly:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 [on a Toshiba Satellite A100-159]
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | I think this new distro is the best yet. I would have liked to have
>> | new artwork but I guess we all have to wait until the next distro for
>> | that.  For me the level of apps and hardware working out of the box
>> | is fine. I like a little tweaking. I run my system without Microsoft
>> | for about 6 months now and if I was a little homesick in the
>> | beginning that feeling has faded away completely now. I can start
>> | a ritual fire with my windows cd's this evening!!!
>> `----
>>
> 
> 
> No don't get rid of those Windows CDs you are going to need them.
> 
> 
> You glue them to a wall and it makes an interesting art work, I saw it on a
> house make over program on telly. It looks crap, but it's art so it's
> supposed to look like that.

If you're an avid gardener, like me, these otherwise useless discs also
make a great scarecrow to keep the birds away from your seeds:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060622/ai_n16509344

Also makes a good cot mobile for babies, although I think using Windows
Discs might give the kid nightmares.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 17:03:04 up 6 days, 14:35,  2 users,  load average: 0.56, 0.45, 0.38

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