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prostoalex writes "The low-cost Linux PC market so far dominated by Lindows got a new entrant. According to News.com, Linare plans to sell a $199 no-monitor model with 1GHz VIA CPU, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, KDE, OpenOffice. An extra $50 would get the user upgraded to a 2GHz Athlon. Company is located in beautiful Bellevue, WA, which, as News.com noted, is quite close to another Seattle suburb - Redmond, WA."

And for another $50 ...

[DogIsMyCoprocessor]

you can get your "Linare" upholstered with fine Corinthian leather.

Re:wont work , support costs to much

[ePhil_One]

I dont see how they can offer twenty four hour support for $19.95

Sure, they only support it for twenty four hours after you purchase it.

"Beautiful" Bellevue, WA

[donutello]

Obviously you haven't been there. It's suburban hell with blonde soccer moms in SUVs.

This sounds really sweet for a low-end computer user. I know a couple of people I'm going to recommend this to. They will probably blow away the OS and use Windows on it, though.

Legal Problem With "Linare" Name

[Anonymous Coward]

"Linare" sounds much too close to "Windows", and consumers are certain to be confused! Microsoft will have no choice but to litigate to protect their brand.

XINE mp3 player and XMMS media player?

[Idou]

http://www.linare.com/linos.htm

Is it just me, or did someone in Marketing get mixed up?

More importantly...

[Glonoinha]

Are Windows2000 Pro drivers available for all the components?

Re:More importantly...

[croddy]

why not check the CVS repository at microsoft.com?

Re:Looks like a good choice for a router

[Anonymous Coward]

How about just buying a fucking router?

Re:Contact them =)

[rmarll]

Who cares if she knows the answer, she's hot!

http://www.linare.com/images/prod_left.jpg

That's right kids, even if your two bit operation is barely off the ground a hot receptionsit and a proper slashdoting can get your linux clients banging your door down in an instant!

Re:And for another $50 ...

[leshert]

I understand they used to have a naugahide option as well, but between the ban on importing British naugas due to BSE concerns and the protests by PETA, they've withdrawn that one.

Re:"Beautiful" Bellevue, WA

[dlb]

Bellevue isn't suburban hell. It's generally a nice place to live.

Renton is suburban hell. Des Moines is suburban hell. Kent (and pretty much anything near 167) is total suburban hell. I'll take the blonde soccer moms in Bellevue to the 80's haired, cameltoed proles in that shithole area south of I90.

Re:Contact them =)

[cpeterso]

She doesn't even look human. She looks more like your Real Doll (TM).

Re:"Beautiful" Bellevue, WA

[dlb]

The word you're looking for is 'redundant'.

"Oxymoron" suggests contradictory terms.

I guess dictionaries aren't available out there yet.

Re:XINE mp3 player and XMMS media player?

[TeknoHog]

Is it just me, or did someone in Marketing get mixed up?

I'm sure they messed up, otherwise they would have MPlayer for movies. ;-)

Re:wont work , support costs to much

[pfleming]

Patron: But the sign says your open 24hours. Shop Owner: Not in a row! (Steven Wright)

Re:$200 silent PC

[benjamindees]

Yeah, extra silent ;)

Re:Contact them =)

[zedmelon]

HEY, take that *back*!!!

THAT'S my WIFE!!!!

Hmmm, Bellevue...

[hgc]

If I remember correctly, M$'s first office in the Seattle area (late 70's, early 80's) was in Bellevue. They moved to Redmond after that.

Let's hope these folks stay in Bellevue. There seems to be something very bad in the water in Redmond.

Re:More friendly than what??

[sinserve]

> most Taiwanese companies have better English on their sites.

That is, until their webmasters started reading /.

Re:Contact them =)

[wideBlueSkies]

Hot or not she sure looks happy. My guess is she's delighted to part of the OOS movement, and she's anxious to get to work helping Lindow's new clients get the most out of their machines.

Either that or she's happy to be getting boinked by the president of the company.

Re:Contact them =)

[ed]

Don't think she's anything special. Unlike the bumf I got from a Czechoslovakian (before they split, though Split is admittedly in former Yugoslavia) PC company a few years ago which not only showed a voluptuous young lady in a tight dress mopping the brow of the engineer who was ensuring that the machines they supplied were top quality but it illustrated the speed options of its CD drives by having a line of young ladies in bikini botoms and T-shirts with the relative speeds written on the T-shirts. The higher the speed the more generously endowed the lady and, of course, the T-shirts were wet.

Very gratuitous, very mystifying as to why they sent them to us in the first place

ed

Re:Thank you, come again...

[pe1chl]

>Yeah, but have you ever called the tech support line for a company who does this? I don't know about you, but I can hardly understand what the techie is saying. I mean no offense to the Indian readers of Slashdot, but some of the accents I just can not understand. I think there are a lot of people [in the US] who are the same way.

There are also many people outside of the US, not native English speakers, who have the same problem when calling a support person in or from the US.
Some of the accents are just very difficult to understand!

Re:as a blue collar...fisherman

[ratfynk]

Right on! my old pc runs win98, linux and bsd just fine. I spend my cash on things like seeking large Rainbow Trout, with a traveler sedge, or choronamid.
Much more rewarding than buying a p4 to find that windows xp sucks and doesn't flyfish worth a damn.