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Lindows Releases Inexpensive Subnotebook
los furtive writes "As of March 1st $799 will get you this Lindows 2.9lb subnotebook with a VIA C3 933MHz Processor, 256 megs ram and a 20 gig HD, a 12inch screen, USB 2.0, firewire and of course the Lindows OS. Pre-orders have already started."
Nice comparison. Where can I buy one of those ibooks?
How long till someone gets a linux distro to run on it? oh wait...
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Can you load Windows onto it? :-)
And what I want to know... will it run Windows 2000? If it can, I'm all over it. That's not a bad deal.
So does that behemoth weigh in at 2.9lbs as well? More like 8lbs you say? Ahh I see so they aren't really comparable at all! Glad you straightened us out, thanks!
I smell slashdot add...
Not sure how to parse that.
Are you commenting on your hygiene, and asking others to comment?
I smell. Slashdot add...
Is this some sort of weird reverse notation string concatination?
I smell slashdot add = "Ismellslashdot"
or are you merely too stupid to know the difference between
ad - as in advertisement
and
add - as in to join or unite
"lindows is a gigantic pile of shit... not because the product is exactly horrible, but because of the smarmy brainless dipshit slimeball assbags who are promoting it"
always nice to see an unopinionated technical review of this caliber.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
"The Dell Inspiron you quote is 6.8lbs -- roughly 2.5 times the size of the Lindows PC."
That's roughly 2.5 times more 'puter for you money!
Looks like you dun made yourself a fool.
Sdelat' Ameriku velikoy Snova!
How can for compare a laptop PC to a PDA? I certaily hope my PDA doesn't have a 12.1" screen or a full sized keyboard sticking out of it (although you can buy one to plug into it) 20 gig hd? nope, but you don't need that much with your PDA (unless you're using it as an MP3 Player too).
It like Sunkist selling thier oranges saying: Our oranges are orange and juicy... apples aren't. Our oranges are great for making orange juice... apples are not. Our oranges taste like oranges... apples do not.
Never argue with an idiot. They will just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Must be really slow, since Intel never produced a PIII 400. The earliest PIIIs were 450s.
mount -t kickfs /dev/myfoot $home/yourass /usr/home/beryllium/yourass: No such file or directory.
... "EOF on your ass.")
mount:
cmp yourface yourass; echo Difference: $?
Difference: 0
oh, this was too funny to pass up:
echo blah > yourface
cmp yourface yourass; echo Difference: $?
cmp: EOF on yourass
Difference: 1
(hahah
as much as ApPpLe would like you to throw away your common sense and buy their Brand Related Experience, calling something an IBook or iBook or IBOOK is ridiculous. ibook yes, Ibook maybe, but IBoOk? no.
fuck marketroids and their IbooK.
In order to satisfy all of the interested parties, it really ought to be called "{ G/L (but not W) }indowsOS"
I'm getting really sick of the comments that seem to attach to any story about any product X talking about how you should use Y or Z instead.
Well put. So, vi or Emacs? ;)
Linux knocked over my mailbox yesterday. Then it went out and sold my cousin an underpowered machine. Damned Linux! I wish it wouldn't go and do things that a kernel isn't supposed to be able to do.
It needs a catchy name! How about "Lapenguin"? (get it, lap+penguin, Ok, you try...)
Penix?