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IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the riding-the-pr-coattails dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like IBM isn't much of a friend of Microsoft's anymore. Today IBM announced an extension of its Microsoft-Free PC effort together with Canonical Ubuntu Linux. This is the same thing that was announced a few weeks back for Africa (a program that began a year ago), and now it's available in the US. The big push is that IBM claims it will cost up to $2,000 for a business to move to Windows 7. They argue that moving to Linux is cheaper."

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  1. Re:IBM's hardware vendor mind is taking over by Jurily · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If I really wanted to, I could fit a minimal-but-working Linux system on a floppy disk.

    My custom-compiled kernel is 2.6 MB after optimize-for-size. I think you're in the wrong decade.

    Of course, I don't consider it "working" unless it has all the drivers I need. YMMV.

  2. Re:Software freedom is "really the way to go". by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In-fighting is AWESOME!!!

    Sure you love open source, but you don't love open source ENOUGH!

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