From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 0:11:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5979337B4D7 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 44842 invoked by uid 100); 27 Oct 2000 07:11:25 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14841.10909.686279.398519@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:11:25 -0500 (CDT) To: Tim McMillen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <130788602@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tim McMillen writes: > Some of the larger OEM's can start to offer Linux but that's all > they are likely to do soon because of the training costs involved. When > the mass market (even those that are savvy enough to handle a free unix > system) buys a computer they want it to be fully configured when they get > it. It would have to have X windows and KDE or Gnome installed Well, Gateway will sell you a *server* with Linux on it. Not a desktop - still got to have an MS OS and mouse (which is almost as bad as the OS). However, they charge you over $300 for Linux. Getting a box without an OS wasn't an option. They're overpriced anyway...