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: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.

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.

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.