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Finally A Major-Brand Desktop With Linux, Not Windows

Fugwidzard writes "Sounds like an okay box from HP at an okay price, the NewsForge review says, but no modem, and even optional modems are Winmodems although they say they have Linux drivers for them. Plus it's not a true Linux preload - they give you a couple of Mandrake CDs and you're on your own, no support. Better than paying Microsoft tax, anyway, and a step in the right direction for HP. Supposedly they're going to have all their PCs 'Linux certified' in the near future. I hope other big PC mills do the same."

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  1. Re:Evesham did this ages ago... by pheared · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if
    anything, Evesham does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.

  2. Re:Evesham did this ages ago... by clare-ents · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a fantastic page

    in the spec :

    Operating system
    Mandrake Linux 9.1

    and at the bottom :

    Evesham PCs use genuine Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
    www.microsoft.com/piracy/howtotell

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  3. Re:Evesham did this ages ago... by squaretorus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was tickled by that too - but you beat me to it with documenting the observation!! you bastard!!! I haven't earned Karma in months because of fast fingered feckers like you!!!

  4. Re:Man, that's an ugly box by dafoomie · · Score: 3, Funny

    That box ain't so bad, compared to HP boxes from a couple years ago, which are f-ugly. They should have just fired all the HP box designers and used Compaq's after the merger.

  5. Re:Is Mandrake Light a GPL Violation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And this is why business avoid the GPL like medieval peasants avoided people w/ the plague.

    Except the plague didn't have happy little armies of brainless sycophants.

  6. Re:Dell does this already by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Holy shit, you got modded to five twice (though I see someone must have modded this one as overrated by the time I clicked the reply-to link) by just fucking up a link and then fixing it. Dude, you're getting a dell!

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  7. Obligatory Simpsons reference now appears by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's actually $52... *ominous reverb*plus your soul*/ominous reverb*

    So it's like a $53 value.


    At least it's better than the $5 that Bart got for his.

  8. Sounds familiar by leonbrooks · · Score: 3, Funny
    I asked our salesrep about this and he said that the BIOS on these demo machines was deliberately written to not run Linux due to some agreement with you-know-who.

    That's innovation, not anticompetitiveness... you insensitive clod!

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