[clug] Linux notebooks (or notebooks without Windows preinstalled)

[Matt Joiner]

I tried for quite some time to find a netbook without Windows
preinstalled through usual outlets. Several times after a few
questions, the resident "IT guru" would be called for, who 3 times out
of 4 hadn't even heard of Linux.

After running with Windows for 2 weeks I accidentally nuked the drive
while trying the new (inferior Fedora-based) Meego betas, and just put
Gentoo on it.

Also, Ubuntu rox, kthxbye :P

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>   1. emz files (Fredd)
>   2. Re: emz files (Owen)
>   3. Linux notebooks (or notebooks without Windows preinstalled)
>      (Carlo Hamalainen)
>   4. Re: Linux notebooks (or notebooks without Windows
>      preinstalled) (Hal Ashburner)
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> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:37:53 +1000
> From: Fredd <freds72 at exemail.com.au>
> To: "linux at lists.samba.org" <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: [clug] emz files
> Message-ID: <op.vftudfzn4eyq9b at marvin>
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> Hi all,  my son-in-law,  the unashamed windows tech, insists on sending me
> .emz files.
> I have tried googling for a way to open them, but have not found a working
> solution,
> all replies are a few years old and don't work
> They are supposed to be a gzipped picture file, but MS has worked its
> usual magic with the standard
> and made it unopenable with a normal file extractor.
> Has anybody had recent experience opening these,  and what sort of can
> opener did you use?
>
> thanks
> Pete
> freds72 at exemail.com.au
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:10:47 +1000
> From: "Owen" <rcook at pcug.org.au>
> To: "Fredd" <freds72 at exemail.com.au>
> Cc: "linux at lists.samba.org" <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] emz files
> Message-ID: <f7bef5f46a8aae7d608e4cf1959a8cb2.squirrel at www.tip.net.au>
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>> Hi all,  my son-in-law,  the unashamed windows tech, insists on
>> sending me
>> .emz files.
>> I have tried googling for a way to open them, but have not found a
>> working
>> solution,
>> all replies are a few years old and don't work
>> They are supposed to be a gzipped picture file, but MS has worked its
>> usual magic with the standard
>> and made it unopenable with a normal file extractor.
>> Has anybody had recent experience opening these,  and what sort of can
>> opener did you use?
>
>
>
> Try unzipping it (or use gunzip) and then try loading into OO draw
> which can render eml files
>
> No certainity it will work though.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Owen
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:33:39 +1000
> From: Carlo Hamalainen <carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com>
> To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: [clug] Linux notebooks (or notebooks without Windows
>        preinstalled)
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> Hi,
>
> Is there currently any way of buying a notebook in Australia without
> Windows installed?
>
> -- Carlo
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:47:52 +1000
> From: Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info>
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [clug] Linux notebooks (or notebooks without Windows
>        preinstalled)
> Message-ID: <4C3DA3E8.8060403 at ashburner.info>
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> http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-latitude-2100?c=au&l=en&s=bsd&cs=aubsd1
> Is one. $70 less, comes with some inferior distro(1) but it means the
> hardware will be functional with any distro.
> lenovo, hp, acer, asus seem to not have linux options anymore. One
> wonders if that's lack of demand or something else. You'd think "and you
> can basically forget about viruses, malware and so on" would be a
> reasonable selling point for a machine that mostly does web, email,
> wordprocessing.
>
> I'm not being a smart arse here. If avoiding microsoft is your only aim
> apple macs don't have windows by default. I don't think apple are really
> much better than microsoft myself but can't be bothered arguing it.
>
> (1) Joke, relax ;)
>
>
> On 14/Jul/10 8:33 PM, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there currently any way of buying a notebook in Australia without
>> Windows installed?
>>
>> -- Carlo
>
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