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Which using a Linux distribution solves how? Clearly most of the "spying" going on is occurring at a level beyond your local machine....

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That's fine. PXE boot is by definition a local installer. In this case you could run PXE, TFTP, and NFS servers on your netbook or another machine....

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This has nothing to do with having a high bandwidth internet connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot...on_Environment...

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Uh, you do realize what makes a Chromebook a Chromebook, right? Hint: it's the OS that's installed......

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Gallatin never supported 64 bit, and the first Prescott that did didn't come out until early 2005 (P4 EE 3.73). Even then they weren't in the commodity...

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Intel had next to nothing 64 bit when Vista was released. Atoms released years after Vista didn't support 64 bit. There are plenty of reasons for Microsoft...

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The mere use of a technology by "thousands of developers" doesn't mean it's either good or well thought out.. By that logic, Windows is better...

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I'm sorry, but your logic doesn't pass the sniff test....

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The source is out there, go look it up yourself. It's that simple....

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Who do you think runs ICANN? Hint: it starts with "US" and ends with "Government"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC...

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How do you plan on setting up a DNS server if the roots go down? And how do you plan on figuring out the IPs for random servers without the roots?...

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Maybe new hardware, but there are millions upon millions of existing systems that are not 64 bit and no distribution is going to drop x86 and alienate...

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Every performance gain has a cost. The cost in this case is maintaining a whole third set of libraries on a system. That takes space, development hours,...

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I have 8 gigs of ram in my machine. At any given time I have at least 6.5 gigs free. If Chrome wants to use a gig of memory by launching each tab as...

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Disagreed. Every Open Source project contributes in some manner, even if it simply serves notice to other people about the pitfalls of undertaking such...