Isn't Mint a bit too much for those PCs? Sure, Mint is lightweight, but I think you're pushing it. Something like xubuntu o lubuntu might fit the bill a bit better.

adsuck is a nice DNS server that does that for you, and you can run it at a network level. :)

Maybe he lives somewhere where amazon does not ship? Maybe it's 10x computers (120USD sure is a lot more!).

I find that /bin/true returns too many false positives while detecting viruses. I've moved over to /bin/false which is just as lightweight.

Out of curiosity, what distro do you usually install?

Anyone wanting to print more than one would just use a VM, or "print-to-pdf". Where the hell did you find such "cupon-printing" software? I've never even heard of such a thing!

I found that suggesting "Mint" prevents this. People think about black screens and green text when you say Linux. They have no concept of Mint (or Ubuntu), so naming that doesn't fire a fear of terminals.

The need for adding "-no-dwrite" to wine has existed for months, it's nothing new.
Why don't you run native wine?

Why not? It sounds like he knew what counts, and amount-of-lines-of-code really doesn't count.
I think this pretty much covers the entire subject:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt

They changed the indentation from tabulations to spaces on 10k files.

Why would mac users dual boot (and consider that "conventient), and Linux users run wine? Most Linux users run LInux on windows-compatible computers.

You can build FLOSS windows apps and run them on wine on your ARM Linux machine. :)

Oh, because it's too hard to implement a 1997 protocol? (IMAP IDLE)

[citation needed]

Seriously.
There's absolutely no evidence to back this up. With SSL and my own server, I'm sure nobody's listening to my connection. The same can't be said for BES, because, seriously, we don't know!

A networkless computer?
Ultra-delicate files can be handled on offline computers, and moved around in physical devices, and encrypted.