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Calum:
a choice is certainly what i want, and as voidmain says, walmart also sell hardware with no preinstalled software too. HOwever most would WAnt the software to be preinstalled for them. And from what i have heard lindows may just be a worse blow to the linux world than Microsoft, in a lot of ways. It distresses me that so many people have been making noises about it maybe being a good jump on point for linux and so on. I think your first linux OS should be totally free and that's it. No ifs, no buts. and you go from there.

Master of Reality:
Lindows is still better than windows. As long as we dont let it become a monopoly

nino:
all we do in our business- life, is playing monopoly.

in the computer branch its hard to play with, cause every step you take you have to pay, allways to the same oppponent who owns all the fields...

if microsoft would begin to produce stuff which is worth to be bought, people would pay for it.
i understand everybody who needs only a fragment of the system and copies this crap.
if they would sell only really useful, small-in-disk-size, compatible systems i would buy it to, if special, personalized add- ons were offered for free.

i look forward to the matrix...

  :rolleyes:

HibbeeBoy:
I am not sure about the "free" inclusion of Linux on a PC distributed by a retailer such as Wal-Mart. I think there is always going to be a cost associated with loading a PC with the OS so that's understandable. But say the consumer goes to a retailer and says "Gimme a PC loaded with Linux ABC 5.5" then that Linux distributer is going to charge. I don't really have a problem with that because I assume that I am also purchasing documentation and some kind of support. And that's the up side of so many flavours of Linux, it should be price competetive with other distributers. As you say Calum, most people want the OS loaded at time of purchase which is why M$ has the home consumer by the gonads. They don't have to think about it and they don't want to and the "tech" guy at CompUsa doesn't have a f*****g clue either. Just give the punter a box and get them to the checkout ASAP. Th epunter doesn't know what he has bought. But given the choice between a box running M$ bollox at $1000.00 and a box running Linux at half that, then I think we may be onto something.

choasmaster:
hell yes i want to buy one, cuase they put linux on it. well, yeah, and i don't think i would barf up as much as mine does. suprisingly my redhat hardlocks every day, its shitty hardware, cuase the pentium 60 hasn't crashed yet/*once but it was my fault for plugging in a broken mouse*/. i do have releife though, cuase the third os that i am running/*can't test ChoasNETOS's stability at these things, im still compiling the lib's for it*/ does not crash. it is godly,

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