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Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad
Desktop Linux ^ | Aug. 04, 2006 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Posted on 08/04/2006 8:27:36 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over IBM's Personal Computing Division, had made a deal with Novell Inc. to preload SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation.

For the first time, a major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has committed to preloading a Linux desktop.

(Excerpt) Read more at desktoplinux.com ...


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To: AFreeBird
As an example

LOL I've seen enough of your examples dude. I completely and fully realize you greatly enjoy boasting of the superiority of foreign products and ideas, even when that is far from the correct observation. You really don't have to make yourself any clearer. It's already perfectly crystal.

But Linux is a clone of US engenuity, something you refuse to ever admit. Basically a rip off, whether or not it's ever actually resolved of all legal claims against it, it's a foreign copy of Unix and Unix standards. But you're so completely devoted to praising all things foreign, you even prefer foreign copies of what we originally made in the US! Not just use it, but then praise it above all else, in spite of our already existing and superior products.

So please, spare us any more examples of your favorite foreign products, since you obviously prefer foreign products when they're actually nothing but cheap copies of our own.

261 posted on 08/11/2006 3:59:12 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
US engenuity = US ingenuity

Including spell check.

262 posted on 08/11/2006 4:01:42 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
You turely are an idiot. You only hear what you want to hear.

For anything else, you're like a little kid with his hands over his ears humming loudly so he cannot hear.

Say goodnight Gracie.

263 posted on 08/11/2006 4:38:08 PM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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To: AFreeBird
You turely are an idiot.

LMAO reduced to insults and you can't even spell them right. Goodnight indeed.

264 posted on 08/11/2006 4:46:17 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: antiRepublicrat
I can at least speak for Intel's new dual core Xeons, they're apparently fabbed in Costa Rica. Unless that's just where the heatspreader is stamped, but I don't know about that.

http://www.powermax.com/articles_reviews/article.php?id=33


265 posted on 08/12/2006 5:59:31 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle

^^^^^^^^^With all respect Linux is nowhere close, and a primary driver at Novell is to clone Microsoft technology^^^^^^^^

Linux based OS's are alot closer than you're willing to admit to Apple. They've surpassed microsoft. You should introduce yourself to something called XGL.

Even Apple didn't innovate this little baby. Unlike what Apple's little 3d toys are, this desktop actually has practical use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl

It has it's origins in several places, but ultimately it's got Novell's name all over it.

Currently, Microsoft is the one left cloning. Both apple and linux based OS's have 3d rendered desktops.

It's interesting to see you knock an american company like that.


266 posted on 08/12/2006 6:09:26 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle

267 posted on 08/12/2006 6:17:45 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle
^^^^^^^^BSD's use very little Stallmanware, and most would like to use zero. I'm sure you know this, but your defense of him is endless.^^^^^^^^^^^^^

BTW, I haven't heard anybody defend this whacko.

268 posted on 08/12/2006 6:20:58 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle

When did you become the self-proclaimed spokesman for the BSDs?


269 posted on 08/12/2006 6:24:44 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle

^^^^^^^^^^Stallman is an influencial radical leftist, and I'm trying to make sure everyone knows.^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you had the ability to see everything that's posted instead of just seeing what fits your little worldview, you'd see that nobody here is defending the guy.

It's nearly impossible to defend the indefensible.

Nobody's out to get you.


270 posted on 08/12/2006 6:29:03 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle
Get real. Stallman is an influencial radical leftist

Not everybody obsesses about him like you do. If not for the Linux kernel (controlled by a person with vocal opposition to Stallman's philosophy), his software wouldn't even be competition for proprietary software, still relegated to being tools used with other UNIX flavors.

Why you've chosen to defend him apparently till your last dying breath is the only unknown.

And why you keep lying that I defend him apparently till your last dying breath is only one of the unknowns.

271 posted on 08/12/2006 8:18:24 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Golden Eagle
You: "LMAO reduced to insults and you can't even spell them right. "

You earlier: "But Linux is a clone of US engenuity,"

'nuff said.

272 posted on 08/12/2006 11:43:51 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

I caught mine, using an American invention, the spell check, remember?


273 posted on 08/12/2006 2:57:43 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
an american company

One day you might actually respect America enough to capitalize it. Then again, you might not.

274 posted on 08/12/2006 2:59:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle

What is it with you and little strawmen?


275 posted on 08/12/2006 6:33:56 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Golden Eagle
I caught mine, using an American invention, the spell check, remember?

No you didn't, you posted it. And then you had the gall to call someone else on a spelling error. This sort of antisocial behavior infuses all of your posts.

276 posted on 08/12/2006 7:41:02 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Mine wasn't an insult, and I corrected it. You guys can't get anything right LOL. Just the facts!


277 posted on 08/13/2006 5:57:01 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
and I corrected it.

Ah, I see the correction now. But spell check normally happens before you post.

So Linux is a copy of Linux. So what. Most things in computing are copies of something else. Even those few beloved (of you) BSD guys talking about removing GPL software from FreeBSD are talking about copying the GPL utilities. But you won't slam those as copies once they're done (and the copies they already have are admittedly inferior).

So everything that's a copy is bad? How about American copies. Even that wholly American icon M&Ms itself is a copy, brought to the US by someone who saw foreign soldiers eating them in WWI. This British candy is known everywhere else in the world as Smarties.

278 posted on 08/13/2006 7:55:55 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Whoops, copy of UNIX, you know what I meant. But at least it was spelled right.


279 posted on 08/13/2006 7:57:01 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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