On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:00:36 GMT, DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob>
wrote in <o79Bh.1957$x74.803@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.n et>:

>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 A new laptop for only $475 will most likely have an outdated slow as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 run sweetly on such an "outdated" machine, without all the attendant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?

Given a current newbie-oriented disto, yes.

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