[olug] Microsft's days are numbered!

Trent Melcher trent0318 at msn.com
Sat Oct 25 05:06:36 UTC 2003


Thanks for the humor :)  I needed  good laugh.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Jay
Swackhamer
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 5:31 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Microsft's days are numbered!


http://qrxx.4t.com/barbieOS.htm

A Linux Distro for Barbie?

Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc.
announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS
0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store
shelves in time for Christmas.  The new OS was created by Mattel to power
the upcoming revision of its popular B-Book line of laptops for girls
between the ages of four and eleven......................

................
BarbieOS, based on Debian Linux, had been in private beta for more than six
months prior to yesterday's public release. ................

follow the link for the entire article..... http://qrxx.4t.com/barbieOS.htm


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