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Re: Ubuntu: The Rich Man's OS: Re: [News] Dell Adds Ubuntu-loaded (Feisty Fawn) Laptops to Catalogue

  • Subject: Re: Ubuntu: The Rich Man's OS: Re: [News] Dell Adds Ubuntu-loaded (Feisty Fawn) Laptops to Catalogue
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:00:24 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1200192.odeQPNMrIG@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 20 April 2007 18:05 \__
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 486box <486box@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 19
>> Apr 2007 18:58:05 -0700 
>> <1177034285.094090.208970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Apr 19, 9:44 pm, "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake
>>>> thusly:
>>>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo <jaba...@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>> wrote on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:13:19 -0700 
>>>>> <MdOdneK7cMazPrrbnZ2dnUVZ_hGdn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

>>>>>>> This does put him in an interesting position.  While one 
>>>>>>> can readily buy the M90 (its under Mobiles), it doesn't 
>>>>>>> have an Ubuntu option.

>>>>>> Michael Dell
>>>>>> Mark Shuttleworth
>>>>>> Who's next? Richard branson -- all alboard the rich man's
>>>>>> Linux: Ubuntu.
>>>>>> Or, purchase a copy of OpenSuse 10.2 and get a real distro.

>>>>> Feh.  Gentoo.  :-P

>>>> Real men use LFS :-P

>>> Straight Debian for me! Runs on everything and with a binary
>>> package system. Though I will occasionally put together my own
>>> distro if I have specific requirements(I made a distro based on
>>> smalllinux and kdrive that ran X on a 25mhz 386, and passably
>>> well. Xedit anyone?).

>> Ooh.  How much RAM on that pipsqueak?  :-)  I've got a 4 MB 386 --
>> I think it's 20 MHz -- motherboard gathering dust in my closet
>> myself.  (It's wrapped in an antistatic bag, of course.  Might
>> still work.)

> the oldest one I hold on to is a 486 with a 166 MHz CPU. Got your
> Amiga?

<wave>

I've still got a CD with M68K Debian for Amigas (@ 8MHz, 1MB RAM).

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
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