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____/ bbgruff on Monday 21 July 2008 12:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> There's some good momentum for unbundling at the moment (in France in
>> particular, at least in Europe). In fact, my current PC I bought from
>> Novatech and it came without an operating system. Every distro I through as
>> it worked perfectly (all hardware detected). The installation process was
>> probably trivial enough even for my technophobic parents to handle.
>
> Cast your eyes over this (y'all) will you:-
>
> http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/GDiumInfo
>
> To me, it reads that you buy the machine with a USB key.
> No disk!
> Presumably that card can carry whatever the vendor wishes. In this case, a
> special version of Mandriva.
> i.e. buy a machine, and buy a key to fit.
> I can't help thinking there's a future in this - especially as far as
> unbundling (not bundling) is concerned!
>
> Look forwrd to the XP version soon? (or not!)
Live CDs/USBs/network installs/virtualisation/X forwarding/whatever show you
just how the modularity of Free software paid off.
There's a similar thing developing on the Eee[st] side:
Ubuntu SD Cards With The Eee PC
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| The Ubuntu Eee project has just announced they will be selling SD cards
| pre-loaded with the latest version of Eee Ubuntu. This SD card can then be
| inserted into the Eee PC and you can run Eee Ubuntu right off of it. This is
| a great idea, but it would be even better if the cards were sold in stores
| along with the Eee PC.
`----
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/07/12/ubuntu-sd-cards-with-the-eee-pc/
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