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   rbowman to RonB   
   Re: Gentoo Linux: $10K community donatio   
   31 Jan 26 18:46:56   
   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:05:57 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-31, rbowman  wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:23:50 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I may be confusing Linspire with Xandros. I think it was Xandros that   
   >>> I bought. Even though Wikipedia says Xandros died in 2018, they're   
   >>> still selling it and there's still a free "community edition."   
   >>> available for download. Xandros and Linspire are both owned by the   
   >>> same outfit now. I think Xandros bought Linspire.   
   >>   
   >> I've used Xandros. It was the original OS on the Asus Eee PC 700. I   
   >> shelved it when it couldn't handle WPA2 and there was no upgrade for   
   >> Xandros. It now is running Q4OS with no problem.   
   >   
   > I bought my sealed Xandros package on eBay, and I think it was pretty   
   > much outdated. I just tested it for a while.   
   >   
   > I never heard of Q40S before. Looks interesting.   
      
   It works. The Eee PC is extremely limited so KDE ran out of space. Trinity   
   is lighter. It works as well as it ever did which is sort of faint praise.   
   However it was a pioneer for its time and just the thing to slip into a   
   motorcycle saddlebag.   
      
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