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"7" <website_has_email@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote in message 
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> Should Motherboard makers bundle Linux CD with every shipment?
>
> They can use a DVD with DSL, Puppy Linux, System Rescue CD,
> GParted, Ubuntu and a few other distros that boot and run from LiveCD.
> The bigger distros should have bare minimum such as Open Office,
> Games like Torcs, Nexuiz etc, education stuff like xmaxima, Rasmol,
> CAD like QCad, K-3D, Gimp for photos, Seamonkey to create
> and maintain websites, GAMBAS2 and gcc for writing software,
> and K3b for burning CDs.
>
> Its all free and downloadable any way.
> http://www.livecdlist.com
> http://www.distrowatch.com
>
> At a cost of 10p, it not only boosts system builders to diagnose PCs
> but also helps all the punters avoid installing boot leg copies
> of proprietory software and reduce piracy.
>
> May be the small companies and system builders should bundle the
> CD themselves. It costs 10p or thereabouts, but bound to generate
> a lot of interest - especially helping students for example
> choose one motherboard over another, and from one vendor from
> another for the freebees that are enclosed.
>

No, because not everyone shares your maniacal obsession with Linux!