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Wal-Mart expands Linux offering | |
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| Time: 10:47 EST/15:47 GMT | News Source: The Globe & Mail | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Retail giant Wal-Mart has added the Lycoris version of Linux to its menu of budget PCs. Wal-Mart has become one of the most important mainstream boosters of the open-source Linux operating system and other alternatives to Microsoft's Windows. Through its Web site, the retail giant early this year began offering low-cost PCs without an operating system preinstalled. It then expanded to Linux, initially relying on the Lindows distribution of Linux and later expanding to include MandrakeSoft's version of the OS. | ||
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| #1 By 1474 (160.125.216.97) at 10/31/2002 12:50:05 PM |
| Lycoris Linux, unlike other Linux versions desktop looks like Windows XP, and performs great - processes are pre-developed with the EASY in mind. Try it - you may like it. |
| #2 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/31/2002 2:03:23 PM |
| I'm just curious... back when I was in elementary school I learned the word "box". I was told (and subsequent reading and conversation with good speakers of English has verified this) that the plural of "box" was "boxes". It seems in computer lingo, someone confused "box" with "ox" and thought the plural of "box" was "boxen". Did I miss something somewhere? |
| #3 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/31/2002 2:06:56 PM |
| #4 If it won't run my Windows applications (and I've already had this discussion in the last few weeks, so I'm quite convinced that it won't), what reason do I have to switch? Switch so I can buy all new software? No thanks! |
| #4 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 10/31/2002 2:17:23 PM |
| Sounds like WalMart is making this Lycoris move to lay the foundation for dropping those horrible lindows boxes. |
| #5 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/31/2002 3:40:17 PM |
| If you buy this system and buy Windows, then you may as well by a low end system that already has Windows installed, since it would cost about the same. |
| #6 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 10/31/2002 4:28:57 PM |
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#1,
Or they may find an inexpensive computer, designed for families that don't have much funding available for such things, that works very nicely for homework, surfing, etc... If it puts a computer into the hands of a family that otherwise could never have one, so be it. TL |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 10/31/2002 4:56:42 PM |
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Caveat Emptor.
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| #8 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 10/31/2002 5:56:11 PM |
| baarod - Walmart is only selling this crap off their website. You can't buy it at a store near you. |
| #9 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 10/31/2002 8:44:28 PM |
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"There is a wealth of software avaialble. OK I should say productive software. To say there isn't much you can do speaks volumes of the ignorance of what you can now do with Linux based platforms."
That all depends on what you want to do with your software and how much interoperability you want with other systems. OpenOffice.org's office suite is seriously lacking. It would be rather unfortunate if you did work at school with Microsoft Office and couldn't use the docs well at home. It would also be unfortunate if you couldn't take your docs from home and use them at school. How many web sites are there that cater to Konquerer? Mozilla? Opera? That's right, not too many. I should also mention there is a big difference between what you can do with the Linux platform and what the common man can do with the Linux platform. "for a true gamer consider buying a PS2/Gamecube/XBox for really great gaming" There is a huge difference between PC and console based gaming. Some of the best games out there (start with anything Blizzard makes and go from there), would be horrible if ported to a console. "To discourage a person for buying a system entirely does a disservice to them and the industry if this is the best system they can afford. " To not inform someone that the computer they can afford is not the system that will really suit their needs, is also a great disservice. "I would wither stick with the stock OS or another Linux OS or get a copy of Windows from another source (wink wink nod nod)." First, if you are going to steal Windows, you may as well just steal a PC from a Mom and Pop shop. Theft is theft, if you're going to do it, you may as well get good hardware while you're at it. (In case someone missed it, that was sarcasm.) Second, the fact that you advocate piracy is really disturbing. "let me see is anyone else following this business model?" There is a HUGE difference between Dell and this walmart website. If dell wasn't successful doing direct marketting, they'd be out of business, since it is their only distribution channel. If walmart was not successful doing direct marketing, it would have little impact on their bottom line, because the majority of their revenue comes from brick and mortar. |
| #10 By 3653 (65.190.70.73) at 11/1/2002 12:55:26 AM |
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doncanz - "Oh yeah a small company called Dell does this same thing as well."
I've received a stack of paper-based Dell mailings this year, with a big fat phone number listed. Seems Dell sells quite a bit "offline"... or at least they see the value in having non-web sales. |
| #11 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 11/1/2002 8:55:38 AM |
| Very curious that antny begins to post the day after beeyp is banned. Hmmm. |
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