You don’t need a judge to break Wintel’s stranglehold on computing. TheLinuxStore.com’s duOS machine lets you turn Wintel into Lintel by dual-booting Linux and Windows 98 for a great price on a great box.
What Do I Get?
The basic machine is an AMD K6-2; the one I tested was a 450MHz puppy and sported a 50x CD, 64MB of memory, and a decently fast Western Digital 8.4GB hard disk. Decent sound (it comes with speakers), ready-to-be-plugged-in networking (the NIC is a fast Kingston RJ-45 PCI card), and a high speed ATI Xpert 8MB video card make this a hot machine in terms of its hardware. More machine is available for a price, but this one will take quite a while to outgrow.
What about the software side of things? That’s what separates real computers from kiddie toys, after all. Its Linux implementation is based on Corel/Linux (which is Debian- based itself).
It includes, pre-installed, the desktop environment KDE as well as the programmer’s GUI toolkit Qt, and, to top it off, you also get Corel’s WordPerfect Office 2000 (including everything from word processing to spreadsheets to database software) and the standard Linux set of tools, plus a really snazzy file manager.
Further, it includes Microsoft’s Windows98 Second Edition. Bundled and pre-installed under Win98SE is Corel’s Windows version of its latest WordPerfect Office (the Windows version allows you to import and export files in Microsoft Word format).
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