Walmart.com ditches the OS in new PCs

Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:24:40 -0500

Last week they had Mandrake 8.1 available among the other software, one shelf down from the XP upgrade.

Alan

plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
> Ideally, WalMart would have several boxed operating systems on a shelf in
plain view next to the computers.  There should be a big sign saying,
"Don't forget to add your own operating system!"  They could have several
Linux distros, WindowsME, WindowsXP, and FreeBSD, for example.
~M

On 22 Feb 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Not *quite* as good as them offering a pc with Linux already installed.
> But a  step in the right direction I think. Does anyone know if Walmart
> sells Linux CDs?
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020221/tc_cn/walmart_com_ditches_the_os_in_new_pcs&cid=70
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