Date: 03 Apr 1999 03:19:31 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emachines Message-ID: <xzpyakao5zw.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:01:06 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990330135831.18736H-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> writes: > So, it looks like the emachine people are looking for resellers. Given a > number of successful reports concerning using FreeBSD on the emachines, it > would be cool is Walnut Creek (or someone else) started shipping $400 > machines with FreeBSD + XFree86 installed, as workstations or low-end web > servers. You seem to be missing an important point. The EMachines are cheap because they're sponsored by ISPs. Who's going to sponsor FreeBSD EMachines? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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