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Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris

ruphus13 writes to tell us of Sun's latest attempt to drive OpenSolaris adoption. The company has inked a deal to pre-install OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops. "Slowly but surely, major laptop vendors are taking to the idea of shipping systems with pre-loaded open source operating systems. The latest case in point is Toshiba — one of the longest-standing players in the market for portable computers — and its new plan to pre-install Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris on its laptops. The machines are supposed to ship in early 2009."

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  1. To OEM, or not to OEM... Is that a verb?! by anomnomnomymous · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (IANAO)

    I'm not an OEM-er.

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    1. Re:To OEM, or not to OEM... Is that a verb?! by 4D6963 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Welcome to the English language, where any noun can be verbed. (I was trying to be funny but turns out "any noun can be verbed" is all over the web already)

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  2. Sun has the Novell problem by Teresita · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Re:Sun has the Novell problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      (Microsoft hates Java) ... (Microsoft hates OpenOffice.org)

      Careful there. That sounds a little too pro-Microsoft there. You might get modded -999999.

    2. Re:Sun has the Novell problem by spazdor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Karma Overflow.

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  3. A Marine's Tale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are two things Marines are always taught

    1)To keep your priorities in order

    2)Know when to act without hesitation

    An atheist professor was teaching a college class and he told the class that he was going to prove that there is no God.

    He said, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you 15 minutes!"

    Ten minutes went by.

    The professor kept taunting God, saying, "Here I am, God. I'm still waiting."

    He got down to the last couple of minutes and a Marine just released from active duty, and newly registered in the class, walked up to the professor, hit him full force in the face, and sent him flying from his platform.

    The professor struggled up, obviously shaken and yelled, "What's the matter with you? Why did you do that?"

    The Marine replied, "God was busy, so He sent me."

    Unfortunately for the Marine, God didn't give a shit if the professor pressed charges or not, so when the police came to arrest him no force in heaven or Earth interceded. He was processed and put in a cell. While in the cell, he met an atheist hobo who claimed there was no God, so he beat that guy up too. over 9000 other inmates attempted to haul him off the hobo, so he beat them up as well. One of them suffered severe blunt force trauma and died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. His bailed was not made and he waited in prison until the day of his trial.

    Because of this, the marine was found guilty of four counts of aggravated assault and one count of 2nd degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years time served in state penitentiary, with parole opportunities after 7. Unfortunately, the judge was a well known, avowed atheist so the marine felt compelled to give him a piece of God's mind. The marine leaped onto the defense table and, using his scheming Jew lawyer as a lawn dart, struck the judge in the face. Parole opportunities were revoked.

    While in jail the marine found himself very busy fighting anyone who showed the slightest lack of faith in God. Unfortunately, one afternoon in the sixth year of his incarceration, God instructed him to pick a fight with a particularly large man of Hispanic descent and, although he prevailed in the initial conflict, the 27 Latin Kings members who fell upon him following his victory quickly delivered blows sufficient to render him incapacitated.

    Because of the severity of his injuries, he was given a bed at the prison hospital. While there, the prison psychiatrist conducted extensive interviews, ultimately determining that the marine was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and late onset schizophrenia. He was immediately put on a extensive array of powerful anti psychotics and anti depressants; all of which he secretly was not taking, because God had told him the medication was from the devil and was being used by heretic Muslims and atheists to sever his ties to the Lord, his God. His condition continued to worsen and he spent more and more time locked in solitary confinement for his disruptive behavior. While there he would cry and scream and pray to the lord for guidance. In turn the lord would fill his eyes with visions of ultimate triumph over evil; the streets of pagan cities, clotted with the thick heart blood of the nonbelievers; abortion clinics fat with flies and the rotting flesh of the defilers; the righteous dancing in the vaulted crypt of the world as the sky turned to red ash and caught fire. He wept with joy as the profound visions filled his soul; the nourishing screams of the nonbelievers as they were dragged down into perdition, filled his ears and echoed in his head like beautiful music.

    Unable to attend church in solitary, the marine began to despair. God then gave him the power to transubstantiate anything, so he began tearing great chunks of his own flesh from his body, at which point he would transform them into the body of christ and raise them to his mouth with trembling hands and consume them greedily. Likewise he transformed his blood to tha

  4. Re:I really like Solaris but... by rah1420 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where the hell are my mod points? +1 Insightful.

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