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Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs

Zed writes "Showing a distancing of itself from Microsoft, Dell now offers businesses a chance to purchase computers without a Windows operating system. The N-Series computers start at $319 from Dell's website and ship with a FreeDOS CD in the box."

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  1. IN SOVIET RUSSIA, BREATHING THINKS ABOUT YOU. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING

    Yes that's right, THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING. Why you might ask? Well it's simple!

    Your brain usually takes care of breathing FOR you, but whenever you remember this, YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.

    There are also MANY variations of this. For example, think about:

    1. BLINKING!

    1. SWALLOWING SALIVA!

    1. HOW YOUR FEET FEEL IN YOUR SOCKS!



    In conclusion, the THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING troll is simply unbeatable. These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY! This goes far beyond the simple annoying or insulting trolls of yesteryear.

    In fact, by EVEN RESPONDING to this troll, you are proving that IT HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM -- YOU!

  2. batman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello. Did you know Asimov touched my junk liberally? She strapped me in to Stile's Stileproject.com and couldn't keep her offensive pornographic material away from me. This bitch disgusts me with her red flag touches. I couldn't believe she hungers for sex and masturbates and in general the city would not approve of a lascivious whore broadcasting such smut to underage kids for free. She learned all this shit in #anarchism. Thank you for reading this.

  3. Re:FreeDOS. by cscx · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Back in the real world, FreeDOS is about as useful as a deep-freeze in the Arctic circle.

    Actually DOS is still widely used... mainly on POS systems; take a closer look at those computerized cash registers next time you waltz into Kroger.

  4. Rob Malda's Theme Song! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (Spoken)
    Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American dream.
    About me, about you, about the way our American hearts beat way down
    in the bottom of our chests. About the special feeling we get in the
    cockles of our hearts, maybe below the cockles, maybe in the subcockle
    area. Maybe in the liver. Maybe in the kidneys. Maybe even in the
    colon, we don't know.
    (Sung)
    I'm just a regular Joe with a regular job.
    I'm your average white suburbanite slob.
    I like football and porno and books about war.
    I've got an average house with a nice hardwood floor.
    My wife and my job, my kids and my car.
    My feet on my table and a cuban cigar.
    But sometimes that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested
    (oh no) no way (uh-uh)
    No, I've gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense
    (oh yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
    I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane,
    While people behind me are going insane.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole)
    I use public toilets and piss on the seat,
    I walk around in the summertime saying "How about this heat?"
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
    Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces,
    While handicapped people make handicapped faces.
    I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's a real fucking asshole)
    Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
    Ranting and raving and carrying on
    Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong
    NAAAAH!
    I'm an asshole (he's an asshole, what an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (he's the world's biggest asshole)
    (Spoken)
    Know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac El Dorado,
    hot-fuckin'-pink, with whaleskin hubcaps and all-leather cow interior and big
    brown baby seal eyes for headlights... yeah! And I'm gonna drive around in
    that baby doing 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon, suckin' down
    quarter pound cheeseburgers from McDonald's in the old-fashioned non-
    biodegradable styrofoam containers... yeah! And when I'm done suckin' down
    those greaseball burgers I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the
    side, and there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it. You know why?
    Because we got the bombs, that's why... yeah! Two words--nuclear fuckin'
    weapons, OK? Russia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, they can have all the democracy
    they want...they can have a democracy cakewalk right through the middle of
    Tienamen Square and it won't make a lick of fuckin' difference, because we got
    the bombs, OK? John Wayne's not dead--he's frozen! And when we find a cure for
    cancer, we're gonna thaw out the Duke and he's gonna be pretty pissed off. You
    know why? You ever taken a cold shower? Well, multiply that by 15 million
    times--that's how pissed off the Duke's gonna be. I'm gonna get the Duke and
    John Casavetti and Sam Peckinpaw and a case of fuckin' whisky and drive...
    (Hey, hey, hey, hey, you know you really are an asshole?)
    Why don't you shut up and sing the song, Hemos. I thought I was the
    asshole... all the time it was him... what an asshole!
    (Sung)
    I'm an asshole (I'm an asshole, he's an asshole)
    I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
    A S-S H-O L-E
    Everybody, A S-S H-O L-E
    Ay Ay-Ay Ay-Ay Ay-Ay
    A-thoom A-thoom-thoom A-thoom-thoom A-thoom-thoom
    Oooooooo
    (Spoken)
    I'm an asshole and I'm proud of it!

  5. $319 PC? by rsmith-mac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know this is slightly off-topic, but am I the only one nervous about Dell selling a $319 machine? OS aside, a machine that cheap can't be too well built, which results in a lot of frustrated users, no matter the OS.

    1. Re:$319 PC? by wozster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I disagree; the 400SC is a great PC and can frequently be had for $350 or less

      Link

  6. Re:Is this new? by DanThe1Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, are you on crack?

  7. GOATSE HAIKU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatse please come home
    O'giant bloody anus
    I miss your beauty

  8. FLAMEBAIT??!!??!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, you mods are fucking retards.

    Clearly, this is "offtopic", not "flamebait". Unless you actually believe someone would seriously argue that buying some cheap-ass PC with a useless OS from Dell is better than slapping your cock between Erica Rose Campbell's big luscious titties and pumping away until you shoot your hot wad all over her lovely face.

  9. Re:I wish I had an iBook... by SubtleNuance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't support WalMart and I don't support Microsoft (I have a hatred for WalMart, Microsoft I'm just not interested in anymore).


    DerajDezine: Im with you, re: walmart -- hell, is it really so hard to pay +5% more for food and daily sundries that are A) better quality and B) from a local speciality vendor?

    Walmart is exploiting sprawl, and we're all paying for it.