wmarone
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2012-02-08
, 20:22
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#71
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2012-02-08
, 20:26
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@ Croatia
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#72
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You won't get RHEL errrrrm, fedora? for free without support. I tried two years ago. The same goes for SLES OPENSuse? and Oracle Fedora again?.
LinuxXP Fedora yet again... is shareware that wil stop working after 30 days unless you buy a license.
Linpus and Xandros (stand alone) have never been available in binary form without buying them. contains a lot of proprietary crap, i dont consider it FOSS
Caldera is discontinued. xandros is also discontinued
bottom line: You won't get any of the distributions I mentioned in binary form without paying for it, regardless whether you want support for it or not.
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2012-02-08
, 20:51
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#73
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yeah...if this goes anywhere ill donate a sum of money to them that i consider fair, maybe even multiple times, depends on how long they continue to update the device...but im sure as hell not buying a device from them for this price and than risking to get stuck with an OS that is going nowhere...
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2012-02-08
, 21:03
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@ Vienna, Austria
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#74
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actually they didnt develop it, not even 1% , are they going to share the money they earn with all the people that are developing linux for the last 20 years?
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2012-02-09
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2012-02-09
, 09:28
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@ Croatia
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#76
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I'd say if they sold it for US$190 (inc shipping) it would make a lot more sense.
At that price point they are effectively competing/undercutting the Nook Color, Samsung Galaxy Tab (2010), Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet and the RIM PlayBook. And possibly the HTC Flyer too.
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2012-02-09
, 10:20
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@ not your mom's FOSS basement
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2012-02-09
, 10:46
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@ Croatia
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#78
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Huh? So much trouble? I've never had issues bringing electronics / computer parts from US to DE, nor my colleagues. Sometimes, those were even shipped before from HK to US.
(You have 430EUR free for imports anyway, so no customs.)
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2012-02-09
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@ Warsaw, Poland
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2012-02-09
, 12:16
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#80
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actualy if you are in germany its 45€ by post if i recal correctly from my time being there, and 430€ might be when personaly carying over the border
i have no custom for electronics(except some imaginary expenses...) just need to pay tax when value is over 20€ by post or 150€ personaly transported
for me the biggest problem is that ec declaration of conformity(certificate that it is in compliance with EU regulations) which is not neded for personal import in EU but is needed here...irony at its finest...