Re: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

They also come with Lindows, something I'm not to thrilled about. Given Lindows' legendary anti-GPL history, I can't say as I blame you. But remember, Wal-Mart also sells those boxes with Mandrake or Lycoris Linux on them too. See

Re: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

This may be interesting for this thread. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021127S0017 Karl - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: RE: Wal Mart s

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 12:59pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Lastly, even a Linux box with some design flaws is more secure than a >> comparable Windows box. ;-) > > What, like having it default to having it auto login as root? That's a > HUGE security issue and one of the main reasons windows vi

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

> Lastly, even a Linux box with some > design flaws is more secure than a comparable Windows box. ;-) What, like having it default to having it auto login as root? That's a HUGE security issue and one of the main reasons windows viruses work so well since they have total control of the system. __

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

> anyway, Lindows isn't very linux friendly. It really depends on what you mean by "Linux friendly". Are they perfect? Far from it -- frankly, I have some real issues with some of their decisions, both license-wise and Linux-wise. Is it still Linux, and reasonably cool? Well... yes. It's Debi

RE: Wal Mart sells cheap linux boxes

They have been doing this for a while.. Few things about it.. They use mini-ITX motherboard, I recently got one, they're neat, you can see what people have done with them at mini-itx.com. They also come with Lindows, something I'm not to thrilled about.. They had some tweaked version of WINE and s