On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 02:49 PM, Lee Wee Tiong wrote:
> if u wanna teach ur guys abt unix, i guess Mac OS X with its freebsd > underpinnings work just fine. but if u want them to learn linux, well > there r many differences between the demon and the penguin. I thought that the Darwin mascot was some funky-looking platypus creature. > there aren't laptops with linux pre-installed? i thought i read > somewhere about wal-mart selling something? or was it desktop? well, > but if u r not living in the states then still dead end. IIRC you can buy IBM Thinkpads with no OS installed, making it easier (possibly cheaper, but unresearched) to install Linux. Or you used to be able to, I'm not sure... I think my local LUG has a petition about it somewhere. Here's the start of that thread if you're curious. http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug%40zk3.dec.com/msg15582.html Erik ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
