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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:34:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On 28 Apr 2024 17:53:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> It was the day eeePC came along, the new version of Windows couldn't run
>> on it, only the old unavailable version could. But the last version of
>> Ubuntu was running very well. And the eeePC with Ubuntu sold very well
>> and seeing that Microsoft extended the old version of Windows. That way,
>> people could buy eeePC with Windows on it.
>
> The Eee PC 4G Surf was first released with Xandros.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xandros
>
> Xandros derived from Debian as does Ubuntu.  I replaced it with Q4OS last 
> month since Xandros didn't support WPA2. It runs, more or less. I can't 
> imagine XP on that hardware.

Xandros is the other distribution I bought at one time. I couldn't remember 
the name. (It was after Xandros had given up and I was already using Linux 
Mint — it was more of a curiosity thing.)

Carry on. Sorry to interrupt.

-- 
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entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
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