[CLUE-Tech] Linux on rentable laptops

Alex Young alexander.young at gmail.com
Sat Jul 3 03:21:48 MDT 2004


the real question is why rent a laptop for linux use when you can just
buy one for $90?
http://retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_laptops.asp?bin_id=world
no, I don't work for them.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 23:12:26 -0600, Keith Hellman
<khellman at mcprogramming.com> wrote:
> The last time I called around (couple years), nobody provided Linux on
> rentable laptops.  But, they didn't care that I scraped the drive and
> did an install myself, so thats what I usually did.  Most rental places
> scrape and reimage a drive on a return anyways (my impression), so as
> long as you don't damage the hardware, they don't care how you arrange
> the bits on the drive.
> 
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