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Hi I am successfully running kubutu on acer 4020 laptop I got month
back . everything including wifi worked out of the box :-)
limpus Linux is just marketing gimmick to bring laptop cost with OEM
software ...more ever if u pop in limpus Linux
On 9/24/05, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of
Acer's
Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the bottom
in small print, something
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest
of Acer's
Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the
bottom
in small print, something like this:
The linux that is preloaded is a free version and would have limited
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:47:19 +0530
Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me.
When I bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux,
which I'm sure you like,
On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
They're doing the right thing.
Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops
because most would have their own distinguished choice, it's better to ship
a bare bone OS to lower the price and leave it up to the
--- Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Naah, see
http://www.linpus.com.tw/ - they dont have a stripped down CLI distro
product (except for embedded stuff!)
Something I noticed which doesnt seem to have been mentioned is the
fact that it seems both Acer and Limpus are of Taiwan
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Sandip Bhattacharya on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 14:28 wrote:
On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
They're doing the right thing.
Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops
because most would have their
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From: Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:49 am
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads
On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the
latest of Acer's
Sub 40k
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:21:01 +0530
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest
of Acer's Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and
mention at the bottom in small print, something like this:
The linux that is
On 9/24/05, Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:21:01 +0530
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest
of Acer's Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and
mention at the
On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 13:50, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
my cousin studying at IIT bought one on bank loan yesterday from acer
mall in NP. it had some linpus linux, kernel boots ur just dropped
into a root shell, with two partitions hda1 (linux) hda2 (windows).
there was no linpus CD
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 11:39 wrote:
I do'nt remember which is the exact model, but I had to give a blast to
the sales person from one of these Acer shops who came to my office for a
demo. I was shocked to see that the said Linux
On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:02, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
[snip]
Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad because
they shipped linux without configuring it.
Sorry no, it doesn't help us. If the machine is shipped effectively without
an OS, they should say so
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Sirtaj Singh Kang on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 05:26 wrote:
On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:02, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
[snip]
Hope this helps most of you guys arguments about XXX company is bad
because they shipped linux without configuring it.
On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[SNIP]
Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me. When I
bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux, which I'm sure you
like, but wasn't my preferred choice. So what do I do, say that the company
Which
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Sudev Barar on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 06:47 wrote:
On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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[SNIP]
Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me. When I
bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux, which
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Sandip Bhattacharya on Saturday 24 Sep 2005 22:15 wrote:
On Saturday, 24 Sep 2005 13:50, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
my cousin studying at IIT bought one on bank loan yesterday from acer
mall in NP. it had some linpus linux, kernel boots ur
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's
Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the bottom
in small print, something like this:
The linux that is preloaded is a free version and would have limited
functionality until another
On Friday 23 Sep 2005 11:21 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Is this another way for these hardware vendors to appease Microsoft
while trying to sell budget notebooks bundled with Linux?
yes
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On Saturday 24 Sep 2005 6:37 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Friday 23 Sep 2005 11:21 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Is this another way for these hardware vendors to appease Microsoft
while trying to sell budget notebooks bundled with Linux?
yes
there is apparently an unwritten
On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the latest of Acer's
Sub 40k notebook ads. They bundle Linux on them, and mention at the bottom
in small print, something like this:
The linux that is preloaded is a free version
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