Fwd: Value Packed Linux 7.1 for Windows....FOR ONLY $19.95!

[Rocky Lichen]

This looks like McMillan Publishing's re-package of Mandrake.  If so, I
believe the "for Windows" part is the ability to create a Windows folder
into which Linux is installed, (instead of having to re-partition) and an
icon in Windows to "launch" Linux, which actually boots Linux.  If the user
decides later he doesn't want Linux, he just drops the Linux folder in the
recycle bin.  Or maybe he decides there's something to this Linux thing and
gets a "for Real" distribution.

Clearly, this is not the distribution for all us awesome uber-geeks, but it
is a cheap, no-risk way for people to experience Linux.  

I remember standing in Best Buy one day looking at an _upgrade_ of MS Office
for $330 while across aisle were the Linux distros with all the software
most people will ever use for $30, and wondering what it will take for
average users to realize how out of balance this is.  Maybe silly ads and
bent products like this are a start?





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