Fwd: Windows Free Laptop (one more)

[geoffrey mendelson]

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> On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Rami Rosen wrote:
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>>  - I asked about Laptops without Windows; they offered me some MSI
>> laptops (which I didn't like so much).
>> These MSI laptops are with freeDos
>
> I have an MSI Wind U100 and love it. It's small, lightweight and has  
> a full sized keyboard.
>
> I run Windows XP Pro English (not the Hebrew Home version that came  
> with it), a BSD
> variant, and carry a disk on key that boots Ubuntu. Since they  
> decided not to include the Wifi
> drivers for it on the latest version (the one with it it won't be  
> out until April), I did not bother
> allocating disk space to Ubuntu. If I had installed it, I could have  
> manually installed the WiFi.
>
> I do about 75% of what I do under BSD, and almost all of the other  
> 25% via ssh and now
> Xwindows to a Linux computer (also running Ubuntu). I only boot  
> Windows to load a device
> driver that is not available for either Linux or BSD, and once it is  
> loaded they will work with
> the device.  Before I got the device, I booted Windows once every 3  
> weeks or so.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
> -- 
> geoffrey mendelson
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com