The purpose is for the use of the terminal.  For those who don't know how to partition there hard drives so that they could program in C, C++, shell script and vi editor use, etc...

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Has anyone seen this yet?

Too hilarious, a friend sent this to me and said you gotta get it. At first it sounds pretty sweet but as you read on well not really.

http://www.winlinux.net

If my eyes aren't decieving me I do believe it says you have to have Windows installed to use this product. So what's the purpose? DOH
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