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Re: [News] Shops in Brazil Sell Boxed GNU/Linux

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____/ Homer on Tuesday 05 August 2008 15:45 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> 
>> |     * Freedows 2004 Standard and Professional (does this distro
>> |       still even exist?)
> 
> Yes, it's a commercial Brazilian disto backed by the government and the
> largest federal bank in Brazil:
> 
>
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2004/11/22/is-freedows-linux-a-better-windows-than-lindows
> 
> In recent times it's been renamed to Dual O/S:
> 
> http://www.freedows.com
> 
> It's basically Fedora with that horrible Windows Teletubbies theme,
> presumably so ex-Windows users don't get confused.

Perhaps in the future, Windows Vapourware (who knows if it's 7, or Midori, or
BSD, or Singularity or SUSE... not even Microsoft knows for sure) will imitate
GNOME, KDE, or OS X. You know, in hope of capturing some users.
 
- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

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