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Hard Drives Preloaded With GNU-Darwin

Posted by timothy on from the hurd-drives-next-year dept.

proclus writes "A 40 gig Maxtor 3.5 inch, ATA/EIDE hard drive ready to go with GNU-Darwin OS pre-installed, plus GNU-Darwin Office, plus a full ports tree and select distfiles. This bundle includes Darwin-6.0.2, GNOME desktop, AbiWord, PyMOL, The GIMP, gdFortran, parallel computing, and much more. A triple CDR set is also included. Available now for ppc and x86 computers. The PPC version includes OpenOffice-1.0.1 and Mozilla-1.0. Compatibility is as specified for our OS installer CDs. Check out our updated ordering web page. (Mirror one mirror two.) You want it."

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  1. Advertisement? by redgekko · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the current rate for slash-er-tisements?

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    1. Re:Advertisement? by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 3, Funny

      They're free, as long as your ad starts with a sentence fragment, or contains a misspelling

  2. OS Pushing by dasheiff · · Score: 1, Funny

    And I though Microsoft was pushing it's operating system.

  3. Re:How is this news? by Clandestine+Fourberi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Duh,
    Because most hard drives you buy now are empty and some are even *gasp* completely unformatted.

  4. You want it. by Simba · · Score: 4, Funny

    No. No, I don't want it.

    For intel boxes, I have FreeBSD.

    For PPC boxes, I have OS X.

    This does nothing better than either of the above in either hardware situation. Well, it does add "GNU" to everything. Woo. Be still my beating heart.

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  5. I just realized something! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    No wonder those "Canadians" on the mailing list had strange names...

    Today I realized that .cn actually stands for China and not for Canada.

  6. Time saver by Woogiemonger · · Score: 4, Funny

    You want it.

    I want it? While shipping out hard drives pre installed with Linux is a way of saving a user time, sparing the internet's bandwidth, and making their hard drive a more attractive product, they'd accomplish all these goals twenty-fold if they filled up the rest of that 40GB baby with free pr0n! Then we'd really want it. Can you imagine how much fun the hard drive manufacturing business could be?
  7. I think you mean by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

    GNU/GNU/Darwin

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  8. Re:If I see.. by capt.Hij · · Score: 5, Funny

    Absolutely correct, this is the devil's OS! However, I hear that if you run the disk backwards it boots up Windows 95.