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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."
That's a fantastic page
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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
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Einstein)
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!!!
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.
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.
That's innovation, not anticompetitiveness... you insensitive clod!
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing