Walmart.com ditches the OS in new PCs

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Subject: Re: Re: Walmart.com ditches the OS in new PCs


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?
>
>
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