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There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an (sic) no-OS machines.

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.koobox.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html
http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

Slashdot's lameness filter is actually pretty... well... lame. Defeating it is usually as easy as adding more text. You know, like this sentence. :-)

There are plenty of other companies that sell Linux an no-OS machines. http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

http://www.addonshop.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://www.ibexpc.com/ http://www.koobox.com/ http://www.linare.com/ http://www.linspire.com/ http://www.linuxcertified.com/ http://www.linuxsyscorp.com/ http://www.microtelpc.com/ http://www.outpost.com/ http://shoprcubed.com/ http://www.sub300.com/ http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm http://www.walmart.com/ http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information) No OS (Sabio made by Quanta, like Dell-latitudes) http://www.avadirect.com/ http://www.asimobile.com/ http://www.powernotebooks.com/

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.xandros.com/

http://tuxmobil.org/reseller.html
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

No OS

(Sabio made by Quanta, like Dell-latitudes)
http://www.avadirect.com/
http://www.asimobile.com/
http://www.powernotebooks.com/

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.xandros.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

The major computer OEMs such as Dell, HP, and
Gateway are refusing to offer CONSUMERS a
non-Microsoft choice.
These OEMs are anti-competitve and
anti-consumer-choice. They continue to maintain Microsoft's desktop
monopoly.

I suggest not doing business with these companies until they offer a serious non-Microsoft choice to CONSUMERS.

Here are some companies that DO offer consumers a choice.

http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

http://www.outpost.com/ (search for linspire)
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=395 1&path=0%3A3944%3A3951
http://www.sub300.com/Skins/greyTech/greyTech_inde x.aspx
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/featured_partner/featured_ partner.php
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

Walmart sells machines made by Linare that don't come with MS Windows in any form.

Linspire has a list of retail partners that sell Linux PCs.

Laptops? Shit out of luck unless you want to pay a lot more.

Walmart sells a laptop with Linspire on it for $498.
Linare laptops start at $498.
Linux Certified laptops start at $999.
ASL has a sweet laptop for $1661.

Walmart sells machines made by Linare that don't come with MS Windows in any form.

Linspire has a list of retail partners that sell Linux PCs.

Laptops? Shit out of luck unless you want to pay a lot more.

Walmart sells a laptop with Linspire on it for $498.
Linare laptops start at $498.
Linux Certified laptops start at $999.
ASL has a sweet laptop for $1661.

Is it possible to buy a modern PC/laptop with Linux preinstalled? I followed some of the links from Linspire ... Via C3 processors? Gimme a break!

http://www.linare.com/linare-linux-notebook.php

Not the latest and greatest, but at comes with an Athlon XP-M 1800+ CPU. I have one of these and must say it is pretty zippy. Not bad for the price.

Linare PC ADBS220
It's no laptop but for 199 it has a REALLY fast CPU, 2200 GHZ!!!

http://www.linare.com/images/ad1600.jpg

Dunno. But their web site creator does not know what OS stands for (in the typical meaning). Of course, this is GNU. You are welcome to your own opinion, as was Darwin.

(Mouse over the linare logo on the screen shots page)

screenshots

But they don't offer a linux laptop WITH WIRELESS. When they do that, it'll be something worth discussing.

Actually they do for $100 more. And you get 256MB of RAM instead of 128MB.

NO wireless?

RTFA, troll.

"Shabir: Hi, Nived", too funny!

my favorite

"For NT logon!"

They made a custom window decoration but didn't bother to do it well, and it clashes with the widget theme. For example, the "Explore" menu doesn't look "pressed", and it clashes horribly with Mozilla.

They made a custom window decoration but didn't bother to do it well, and it clashes with the widget theme. For example, the "Explore" menu doesn't look "pressed", and it clashes horribly with Mozilla.

http://www.linare.com/ladbs250.php

That's just KDE with a fugly skin, you know. Just look at the KDE Control Center. See the "apply settings on KDE startup" checkbox?

From looking at the screenshots (http://www.linare.com/screenshots.php) it looks like it's probably based on Red Hat (uses Disk Druid, and the same "time zone" selection screen as Red Hat anyway.

I agree, they seem rather fishy, I can't find any reference to GPL or ANY license for that matter on their site, even when trying to purchase the product. According to their list of software they are also including some commercial apps (i.e. RealPlayer). I would think they are legally obligated to include some sort of licensing info up front.

My 2 cents anyway...

Why did they choose linaire, the world's most hideous linux distribution?

According to WHOIS, the domain was created about a month and a half ago, apparently owned by Linaire.

Why do they have a picture of a Quicksilver Mac on their home page with Linare PC in the same graphic?

Seems a little dodgy to me ...

Well according to this page, their email client is KMail, the increasingly popular Outlook -styled-email.

While I applaud their efforts, and I am sure I am nit-picking, wouldn't it be like a Eudora-styled-email-client, or at least an Outlook Express-styled-email-client? I mean Outlook is more like a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM), for better or worse...

It's a PC that's got Linux on it.

Clear enough?