Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

On 11/2/06, Virtual Sky Media Group <virtualsky_sk@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Just for that, I'm going to go over there and look
> around for a laptop and when I get the sales pitch,
> I'll ask for Linux, too.
>
> Heh, heh. :)

When I said "if you say so" to the 'real world' comment, the guy
mentioned that maybe he could sell it without an OS, though I didn't
ask how much (or perhaps little) the discount would be.

I got a vibe from that place kind of like it was 'Honest John's Used
Computer Dealership' or something :)

> They don't have used laptops, as far as I know, but
> the guys over at OTV never give me a hard time about
> being a Linux user when I go shopping there for stuff.

Indeed; the last time I was at OTV I talked to a sales guy who knew
very little about Linux (other than that the techs used it ;) but I
showed him a YouTube video of Kororaa 0.2 running XGL and he was quite
impressed :)

CK

P.S. Anyone reading this thread who wasn't at the September meeting:
I'm looking for an older (e.g. PII, though Scott had mentioned that
one of the tiny distros (DSL?) will work on an original Pentium, as I
recall) laptop for a friend that's less than $150 (preferably less
than $100) that runs ok enough for me to install a desktop distro on
it for word processing, perhaps light internet use, that sort of
thing...
Received on Thu Nov 2 19:33:21 2006