[Info-vax] OT: For Mr VAXman: Microsoft racist gaffe !

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In article <4aafd$4ab0ee02$4c0aac3b$29358 at TEKSAVVY.COM>, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> writes:
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><VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message 
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>> In article <t%vlm.14280$ze1.12959 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "Tim E. 
>> Sneddon" <tim.sneddon at bigpond.com> writes:
>>>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
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>>>> I took notice yesterday while out and about that there are some of these
>>>> small NetBooks now being sold with Linux!  The ASUS Eee PC was one I saw
>>>> in my travels.  I liked it too as there was no evil M$ WEENDOZE swastika
>>>> on its keyboard. :)  The small floor sample was only a mockup.  I wasn't
>>>> able to discern which distribution of Linux was installed.
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>>>I've seen those around too.  They are quite reasonably priced.  According
>>>to Wikipedia the distribution is Xandros.
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>>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Software
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>> I wonder how easy it would be to get other Distros to install and boot
>> on one of those.  I didn't see a CD/DVD on the one I saw on the shelf,
>> to an external CD/DVD or a USB thumbdrive would be needed to get some
>> other distro loaded.  I can't afford to lay out $200 just for a toy to
>> check it out though.
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>I recently purchased one of these Toshiba netbooks 
>http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?poid=440193   and will be 
>installing OS X on it later this week (10.5.7, or 10.6.1 if there is a 
>concensus in the Hackintosh community that it can be made to work). Many 
>people have done this (with approprite kexts added). Many of these 
>'Hackintoshes' also have linux and Win 7 installed as triple-boot systems. 
>Some even have Parallels running to allow simultaneous use of the os'es.
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>External DVD drive or 8Gb flash drive is what's required...and preferably 
>access to a current Mac to deal with some formatting issues. Some startup 
>hacks will actually use the official OS X distro, while others use a hacked 
>distro - has some implications on applying Apple updates later. 

Thanks for the pointer.  I'll take a look at the Hackintosh stuff.
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