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Free PC With French Broadband Connection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-mention-this-to-aol-please dept.

robson writes "Neuf Cegetel announced the purchase of AOL France, an ISP that counts 500,000 broadband subscribers and the arrival of 'the box,' an Internet access terminal. Code-name: Easy Gate. It's a computer, working under the Linux OS. It's a router. It's a DSL modem. It's also a telephone. All in one. Easy Gate will be available from November, the actual 'box' consists of: an Intel 852 GM, 6 ports USB 2.0, 512 Mb of RAM and 512 Mb of Flash memory."

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  1. It's not M$, so no BSOD... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    but since it's French, it has a White Screen of Surrender.

  2. Lost in the translation by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Code-name: Easy Gate

    Interestingly enough, that word in French can also be translated to be "Maginot Line".

  3. Re:2006 is the year of linux on the desktop... by Nutria · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    they fought just as hard as every other nation and lost hundreds of thousands of people in combat.

    One word: collaborationists.

    Another word: Vichy.

    More French soldiers died battling the Nazis than US soldiers.

    I'd want independent validation of that. But then, maybe so many died because they sucked.

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