Not only is it free it's also *shock* *horror* LEGAL.
An illegal pirate copy of WindowsXP has much more street cred than the goody two shoes linux option.
I ordered 6 ubuntu cds to give to people on my course here in Ireland who are attending a hardware maintenance course. Not one of them even put the disc in the machine!
Why? Cos it's legal!
Therefore I propose two new linux distros based on Linux Mint.
1) Illegal Linux (complete with activation key scribbled on the cd case)
2) Thousand dollar Linux (linux that is sold in the shops for $1,000)
This was typed on an ASUS eeepc running Ubuntu 7.10.
A friend of mine here in Ireland lost EUR 200 with a simliar problem, except in his case the machine just went blank. He got his money back from the bank when they counted the money in the machine and realised it was over by 200. But it took two days of phone calls.
While I was on holiday in Anglesea the woman in front of me in the que had the same thing happen to her and lost 50 quid. I comiserated with her, and then went and used the machine across the street:)
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Not only is it free it's also *shock* *horror* LEGAL. An illegal pirate copy of WindowsXP has much more street cred than the goody two shoes linux option. I ordered 6 ubuntu cds to give to people on my course here in Ireland who are attending a hardware maintenance course. Not one of them even put the disc in the machine! Why? Cos it's legal! Therefore I propose two new linux distros based on Linux Mint. 1) Illegal Linux (complete with activation key scribbled on the cd case) 2) Thousand dollar Linux (linux that is sold in the shops for $1,000) This was typed on an ASUS eeepc running Ubuntu 7.10.
A friend of mine here in Ireland lost EUR 200 with a simliar problem, except in his case the machine just went blank. He got his money back from the bank when they counted the money in the machine and realised it was over by 200. But it took two days of phone calls.
While I was on holiday in Anglesea the woman in front of me in the que had the same thing happen to her and lost 50 quid. I comiserated with her, and then went and used the machine across the street :)