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:Ofset.org: Pre-installed Linux: Forget PC's. Why not USB-Disks?
Ofset.org: Pre-installed Linux: Forget PC's. Why not USB-Disks?
Mar 19, 2007, 23 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (11271 reads)

(Other stories by Chao-Kuei Hung)

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" It is more difficult to convince people to switch from MS Office to OO.o; it is much easier to convince people that they should at least allow their children and/or students the exposure to the collection of wonderful education software such as Dr. Geo, gcompris, celestia,... because this is several FS projects fighting collectively against (not-united) proprietary software vendors much smaller than Microsoft. It is more difficult to push free software in developed countries; it is much easier to push it to countries not yet addicted to Microsoft products, as evidenced by the OLPC project."

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I like the idea. You could even make spe ...   USB Disk   
Edward Haddock
Mar 20, 2007, 04:23:02
 
An organisation can buy usb external dri ...   Why usb hardware manufacturers alone!   
Khan Md Ashraf
Mar 20, 2007, 07:18:58
 
.. but maybe not original. AFIAK there a ...   Great idea   
John Schaaf
Mar 20, 2007, 07:51:23
 
I had some problems to boot in a Windows ...   risks   
Olivier Nyssen
Mar 20, 2007, 07:55:06
 
Did this last year and wrote it up, howe ...   Full Debian on USB-HD   
George Hein
Mar 20, 2007, 11:28:26
 
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