Carphone Warehouse, netbooks and GNU/Linux: an inquest

Posted by scrubs on Feb 2, 2009 11:43 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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I was browsing around my local Carphone Warehouse shop last week. Unlike the last time I crossed their threshold (November) I noticed that their Ubuntu netbook display had vanished. There was only one netbook on display and it was advertised as running Windows XP. Their website also advertised the Asus EeePC with Windows XP too. I approached a sales person to ask about a GNU/Linux option on the Elonex and was informed that they no longer stocked them. What when wrong? Read the details of the inquest at Freesoftware Magazine.

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