John Navas wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:27:47 GMT, DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob>
> wrote in <7n3Bh.1827$x74.1772@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink. net>:
>
>> mr.b wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:04:24 +0000, DTC wrote:
>>>
>>>> A new laptop for only $475 will most likely have an outdated slow as
>>>> molasses Semperon CPU and only 256 Meg of RAM. Internet Exploder will take
>>>> at least 30 seconds to load. It will be a very frustrating computer to
>>>> use.
>>> Yes but only if you load Winblows on that thing. Any linux distro will
>>> run sweetly on such an "outdated" machine, without all the attendant
>>> viruses, malware, worms etc...
>> Very true...but how many people are up to installing Fedore 6, or any
>> distribution for that matter...or anything OTHER THAN Windoze.
>
> Preconfigured "live CD" can be run directly, or installed pretty much
> automatically.


Too bad the users aren't preconfigured. Do you really think the typical
user can deal with Linux?