[olug] Microsft's days are numbered!

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Fri Oct 24 22:30:39 UTC 2003


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......................

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BarbieOS, based on Debian Linux, had been in private beta for more than
six months prior to yesterday's public release.
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follow the link for the entire article.....
http://qrxx.4t.com/barbieOS.htm


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