Buy Lindows, Get Fedora and Mandrake Too?

tacarat writes "Lindows has an interesting deal going on right now. If you go to Linuxshootout.com, you can get Linspire/Lindows 4.5, Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core 2 or a mere $29.95 download or $39.95 for the 8 CD set. Yahoo! News covers this story. Quoting Michael Robertson,'Our emphasis on Linspire is ease of use -- making Linux quick and easy to install and use,' he said. 'Other products may have a different focus. That doesn't mean they aren't great products, just that their focus may be different. Every new Linux computer helps the Linux desktop industry, regardless of what company's product you choose'. Also, 'We want to encourage side-by-side comparisons of the latest Linux products.' Interesting strategy. Will their sales go up because people are buying Lindows plus the other two distros, or will it be the other way around?"

Comments

If you check my ebay auction...

[Ieshan]

If you check my ebay auction, I have sensitive and important information on how to get a FREE download of Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake Linux 10! That's right!

For only $4.99 + $2.00 service charge, I'll email you a very secret link, not found anywhere near www.redhat.com or www.mandrake.com.

Or... something...

Re:If you check my ebay auction...

[Aliencow]

Wow, I thought he was serious about selling a link, I mean, nobody here could've found that by themselves !

Re:If you check my ebay auction...

[TWX]

>>I wish my ISP would mirror porn locally too...

>Ever heard of usenet? ;)

Too dangerous. The odds are too good of getting an underage hermaphrodite bisexual bdsm-practicing beastiality freak with a cookware fetish...

Re:If you check my ebay auction...

[rking]

I'm still going to buy the link. If I use chipperdog's free link then who can I sue if it doesn't work?

Order

[andrej73]

>Linspire/Lindows 4.5, Mandrake 10 and Fedora Core 2

and extra cheese please.

Re:If you have one distro...

[Sarojin]

You must be new to Linux

Better Promotion

[Anonymous Coward]

I can tell you a better alternative- spend $30 on beer, download Mandrake and Redhat ISOs, and burn them to CDs (average cost of CDs should be around $.02).

Ditch the Linshit/spire/whatever, drink the beer, and install the two linux distros. Trust me, you will be happier in the long run.

Re:quick!

[deutschemonte]

The Gentoo folk would have liked to issue a statement but were unavailable when the story went to print because they were too busy compiling.

Re:Not Too Bright

[drinkypoo]

Maybe he's hoping that consumers will lose all their data due to a Fedora bug and never touch it again. Not sure what his angle is on the Mandrake tip, though.

I've made up my mind

[TechnologyX]

"Pornography web filtering available?: Yes ( Linspire ) No ( Mandrake ) No ( Fedora )"

I'm thinking a big no on Linspire.

When will Microsoft do the same??

[OlaL]

I wonder how long it takes before our beloved mr Gates gets the same idea and offers a couple of linux CDs with every Windows to "try them out"...

That'll be the day!

Re:When will Microsoft do the same??

[Nasarius]

Don't worry, they've already posted an entirely unbiased analysis of Linux. Clearly, there's no need for Linux when Windows is so much better.

*cough*

Re:I emailed Lindows about this

[rsilvergun]

I know this, but if you're trying to sell computers to the sort of people who don't know what CSS is, it doesn't look very professional to do this:

Customer: I can't play dvds

Reseller: Well, you just need something to decrpyt them *wink**wink*.

Customer: Why are you winking at me?

Reseller: I didn't just wink, and I said absolutely nothing about libdecss?

Customer: lib what?

Reseller: Exactly.

Re:This doesnt seem right...

[mormop]

What makes me laugh even more is the example shootout with the "magic eraser" that makes it clear that they think Lindows is the best distro available.

Yeah but let's face it, until there's an entry in the list that says "relays 3,000,000 pornographic spams to a harvested list of users" (tick) it'll never really replace Windows.