Ok, so I read this article about why the Everex $200 PC being sold at Wal-Mart is a bad deal (fyi, it's also sold at ZaReason).
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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candtalan
4 years 26 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago
Walmart PC is a very good deal.
Walmart PC is a very good deal. I have just tried the live CD of gOS and subsequently installed it. I was very impressed. I have experience with helping older people use computers - I set up and was coordinator for three years, of an internet cafe for a UK charity serving older people. I am quite sure that gOS will be strongly favoured by users who want good but basic computing. The underlying ubuntu is well concealed. If a typical user can break something they will deserve a medal!
underthelinux
4 years 26 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago
"Conclusion: We shouldn't sell
"Conclusion: We shouldn't sell Linux computers to new users."
I think that the rebuttal of this quote sums up the point of this article. Clearly, if we all thought like this, there would never be change everywhere.