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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the there-has-to-be-a-catch dept.

Want a free Chromebook? All you have to do is take a Linux course offered by the Linux Foundation and its yours. The offer is from Sept first to the thirtieth so if you want a Dell Chromebook with a 1.4Ghz CPU and 4GB of RAM for free? Best grab one ASAP.

Keep in mind when siging up for these courses, while the Chromebooks are free, the courses most certainly are not. According to the Class Schedule posted on the Linux Foundation site, prices range from $0 (Introduction to Linux) to $2500 and up for most everything else.

Promotion Eligibility:

This promotion is available to anyone who purchases either a scheduled or elearning Linux Foundation training course between September 1, 2015 and September 30, 2015.

The following purchases are not eligible for this promotion:

  • Free courses (such as the edX LFS101x course)
  • The India-only LFS201/LFCS Bundle
  • Corporate training
  • Linux Foundation Events
  • Discounted instances of LFS201 Essentials of System Administration and related bundles

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Gravis on Sunday September 06 2015, @05:51AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday September 06 2015, @05:51AM (#232901)

    that can easily be done on a hand held device like a smartphone. why bother with a netbook when a phone could do what you need?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @01:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 06 2015, @01:47PM (#232970)

    Because I don't want some shitty spyphone? Cell phones are mere tracking devices, which is why I don't use them.

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:04PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday September 06 2015, @02:04PM (#232972) Journal

      What would you call a chromebook then?

      • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Sunday September 06 2015, @07:46PM

        by Hyperturtle (2824) on Sunday September 06 2015, @07:46PM (#233049)

        Somebody else's problem?

        I wouldn't use one.

        I prefer a big screen and local data and so on... but sometimes in order to get paid, I can't rightly complain about what I have been given.

        Fortunately, no one has handed me a chromebook. I am pretty clear their target audience is not for the one I am in, but clearly they fill a niche of computing that someone else needed answered. All the more (or less, as the case is) power to them.