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[danmcgrew]

Thank you very much. That explains why I can't find the magazine/DVD combination any more. I do wonder why, though......

[danmcgrew]

It's always been my impression that the reason Klaus Knopper originally wrote Knoppix, and the sole reason for its existence NOW, is as bullet-proof operating...

[danmcgrew]

Thanks, guys.

You both are making my decision--and indeed, ANYone's decision--to buy the RK3399-based Pinebook Pro look like a stroke of...

[danmcgrew]

Whenever Klaus Knopper generated a new edition, that newest edition of Knoppix used to appear as an add-on DVD to Linux/Linux Pro Magazine.
Anyone...

[danmcgrew]

Yep; knew that.

And I'm STILL going to buy a Pinebook Pro 14.1", 1080p IPS display Linux laptop--with full privacy controls AND a magnesium-alloy...

[danmcgrew]

@ #40--

"...I don’t mind that RPI 4 comes without a heat sink. What is problematic is that Raspberry PI did not provide for a proper...

[danmcgrew]

Good pun!

All RPi s have been making Odroid stuff look cool for a long, long time. Even now, the lowly XU-4 ( 2 GHz, EIGHT CORES; 2 GB RAM;...

[danmcgrew]

From Michael Larabel's hard work, and by The Raspberry Pi Foundation's tacit admission, it is quite clear that the RPi4 is not usable without the addition...

[danmcgrew]

You, and a boatload of other people.
The Pine Group has released the Pinebook Pro to purchase by the public, as of the end of July.
$199.95...

[danmcgrew]

It's been TEN YEARS, FOLKS, and The Document Foundation still can't make a tool that's compatible with, whether you hate it/them or not, Microsoft's ...

[danmcgrew]

Admittedly; apologies for seeming to fixate on boot time--assumed readers would correlate that with KolibriOS's blazing speed; this is due, in large part,...

[danmcgrew]

KolibriOS: a pre-emptive, multi-tasking operating system written entirely in Assembly Language. Earlier versions booted in less than three seconds. So...

[danmcgrew]

A comment from ZDNet’s windows terminal article, https://www.zdnet.com/article/micros...-and-its-huge/ --
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[danmcgrew]

Your point is very well taken.
There are two basic reasons for this: (1) most people do not really know how a computing machine operates, and (2)...

[danmcgrew]

@ 129 --
"That's clearly just a simple mistype of white box...I shall endeavor to ignore you going forward."

So now you are...

[danmcgrew]

@ #126 --

You, and the referenced idiot, suffer from many of the same problems, to wit:

"white box". It's what is...

[danmcgrew]

@ # 83 --

"...The Pinephone is a wite box OEM phone with a opensource firmware. It is massively mass-produced smartphone designed by...

[danmcgrew]

@ 28 --

“Guess I'll be missing your posts from now on since quoting that way does NOT yield any sort of email notifications...”
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[danmcgrew]

@ #26 --

"...I'm repeating this a final time..."

You cannot imagine the relief we all feel at learning that this is...

[danmcgrew]

@ 20 --
"...Pinebook is vaporware. They are seemingly just wasting our time."

Wrong...dead wrong. Since you quite obviously...