Re: Kubuntu On Older Laptop?

In <pan.2007.07.22.21.48.44.582354@xxxxxxxx> Yves Bellefeuille:

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really charge $ 50 per year to use their software repository?

That ain't the half of it with those pointyhair dumabasses infesting Novell
and Linspire:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007072014373817

You could not PAY me to have anything do with any of those morons.

JMO; YMMV...

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