mike wrote: > My brother got a new motherboard today and one cd they sent with it has Thiz > Linux. im gonna check it out
So all the motherboard manufacturers are going to provide Linux CDs, but it's not a very good Linux, and a lot of people are going to get their first taste of Linux from these CDs and might not like it, and Microsoft might even try to sue the board makers for failing to pay the OS tax since it's clear that nobody runs Thiz, so they must all be running pirated copies of DOS XP. If I were a marketing wienie at RedHat, Mandrake, Lycoris, or any of the other commercial distros, I'd be trying hard to cut deals with the board makers to give them CDs at about half a penny over cost. Or else I'd try to get Thiz to put their label on my CD. Maybe the board makers just haven't considered that they can get RedHat or Mandrake for the same cost as Thiz. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
