Re: Notebook

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:50:57 -0600
From: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Notebook

I have to agree. Life is too short to not use an OS that is user-
centric, runs an awesome *nix kernel and yet does everything you
expect with commercial applications such from M$ Office and Adobe.
You can still run X, compile C and fortran and hack the shell.

M.


On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:39:33 -0200
> From: Antonio Mario Magalhaes <ammagal@mpcnet.com.br>
> To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
> Subject: Re: Notebook
>
> Tom,
>
> If you're going to pay more anyway, get a Mac. Once you use one,
> there'll be no turning back. In addition to the Mac's window manager,
> as Chris says you can run X11 and do your stuff from terminal
> windows, if you need to. It'll talk to Windows (argh) and Linux
> machines w/o a hitch.
>
> Or you can get a 'Best Buy' pc and install VMWare in it. You'll then
> be able to use either OS side by side, w/o rebooting. VMWare is a
> virtual machine under which you can install whatever Linux you like.
> While in Linux, you'll run TCP/IP transparently through your Windows
> setup and it will use whatever drivers Win uses to talk to
> peripherals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mario
>
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:
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>>
>> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:24:48 -0600
>> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
>> To: Dirk Terrell <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>
>> Cc: tass@tass-survey.org
>> Subject: Re: Notebook
>>
>> Hi Dirk,
>>
>> Thank you.  I had already found your source among others.
>>
>> The thing that ticks me off, is that I can go to Best Buy and buy a
>> notebook with Windows installed that is cheaper than I can find a
>> notebook on the internet with no OS.  Bill Gates has succeeded in
>> taxing
>> every computer built.  Seems to me that this violates the anti-trust
>> laws.  So I am ticked.  Very few (relatively - I have found dozens)
>> will
>> sell you a computer without the OS.  These are all more expensive, I
>> have been looking all day.
>>
>> Tom Droege
>>
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