I was thinking that we could talk to local Walmart stores and see if they would accept some flyers about the KPLUG and other Linux resources...??
----- Original Message ---- From: Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:45:20 PM Subject: Finally, Linux preinstalled in retail stores According to this article: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html two Wal-Mart stores in the San Diego area are selling a $200 computer that comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. I am tempted to start calling around to find out which one it is if I thought there was any chance that someone who answered the phone might know if their store carried them. I may just have to visit a few until I find one. Things like this really tick me off: http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/ but the hardware is getting so small and cheap and Windows so big and bloated that I think we are now at the point where it will soon be impossible to install Windows on some of these cheap computers that ship with Linux pre-installed. If they really provided Windows for free in the above case it seems like a classic case of dumping. I have heard rumors that Microsoft is trying to get Windows to run on the OLPC but that is going to be such a big PITA to pull off and the Windows would be so crippled that I don't think they could possibly gain anything by it. -- Tracy R Reed Read my blog at http://ultraviolet.org Key fingerprint = D4A8 4860 535C ABF8 BA97 25A6 F4F2 1829 9615 02AD Non-GPG signed mail gets read only if I can find it among the spam. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
