Re: [school-discuss] Walmart Sells Linux Boxes

["James P. Kinney III" <jkinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These sold out of WalMart in less than a week. For a small system they
were OK but heavy desktop like KDE or Gnome they were struggling.

They would make great thin clients, however!

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 13:04 -0800, Joel Kahn wrote:
> I'm wondering whether anyone in this group
> has tried out one of the Everex gPCs that
> Walmart has been pushing--the box with the
> Via Technologies C7-D processor, the gOS
> operating system based on Ubuntu, and a few
> FLOSS apps. I'm curious as to whether any
> of you think its $200 price tag is worth
> looking at compared to other FLOSS options.
> 
> To me, the most interesting part of Walmart's
> online ad for this is the option to "upgrade"
> from gOS and 512MB of RAM to Micro$oft Windows
> Vista Home Basic and 1GB of RAM, for a mere
> eighty US dollars or so. Let's see--I'd be
> paying extra to drop a popular and reputable
> Linux distro in favor of the most crippled
> version of the most despised product ever to
> emerge from M$. Any guesses on how many takers
> Walmart is getting on this "upgrade" offer?
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
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