Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Thu Dec 5 17:28:25 EST 2002


They have been doing this for a while..

Few things about it.. They use mini-ITX motherboard, I recently got one,
they're neat, you can see what people have done with them at
mini-itx.com. They also come with Lindows, something I'm not to thrilled
about.. They had some tweaked version of WINE and some other stuff and
there was a big fight to get them to release the code (because it's
GPL'd or some form of a license very close to that), there was also some
other stuff the messed around with and never released the code for,
anyway, Lindows isn't very linux friendly.

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> <quote>
> By dropping software from Microsoft and avoiding "Intel 
> inside," retailer 
> Wal-Mart Stores is offering a $199 computer it says is a hot 
> seller on its 
> Web site, attracting novices looking for a way onto the 
> Internet as well as 
> high-end users wanting a second box.
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