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Re: Thursday, February 11, 2005
Well, we overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long. Linspire 5.x beta loaded perfectly into the little laptop I brought with me (a Via-based no-name), and worked without a hitch as well. And I was very encouraged by what I saw at Linspire's offices: a QA routine with about 20 laptops with Linspire 5 being burned in and tested. Gave me the fuzzies. I think Linspire is the company to watch. They're highly focussed, and unencumbered by the agendas that burden all the major hardware OEMs. Train story... When we moved to Santa Barbara four years ago, we took a place near the beach that turned out to be about 150 feet from the railroad. The first night a freight train came trough at 3:10am, blasting the horn seventeen times (I counted). My wife and I looked at each other with a wtf? expression, and steeled ourselves for more of the same, which came several more times the same night. And the night after that. By the third night we were sleeping through it. Now, up on a hillside overlooking town, the same train is less loud, but no less (or more) noticeable. Living in SB means living with freight trains roaring through all night. And it doesn't matter. Almost amazing.
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