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Where Is The Plug-and-Play Linux Office System?

Posted by timothy on from the entrepreneurial-spirit dept.

cdlu writes "Where oh where is the plug-and-play Linux business computer? Robin Miller asks the question and makes the case for starting a business to sell a self-updating networked Linux system for small business. Any takers?" (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.)

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  1. Thoughts by Apostata · · Score: 2, Funny


    Obviously this article was too interesting/pertinent for linux.com, which continues to be the most boring Linux site on the internet.

    (NewsForge and Slashdot *and* Linux.com are both part of OSTG.)

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  2. Re:Self Updating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Didn't you get the memo? It's a bad idea if Microsoft comes up with it but when Apple or Linux implements the technology a couple years later it's innovative and will revolutionize the way computers work.

  3. Re:Is this going to be a case of by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is Slashdot. Bill Gates gives flowers to an old woman and he is the son of Satan. Linus pisses in the old woman's face and Bill Gates is the son of Satan.

  4. Re:What tasks are you talking about? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you aware that Linux *can not* do automated trans-mapping of sync stack variables? And if it could, it would prob. be command line for God's sake! It's true, tell me it's not.

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  5. Re:As long as the user can say no to the updates by Spamlent+Green · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, don't feel bad. It sucks on XP too. and before that it sucked on Windows 2000.

    I have never hated an application more than I hate GroupWise.