Also sprach Ken Moffat:
On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart
selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear
it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition,
Latest program, and scroll down to the Lindows link. (You
We are NOT the target audience here. We know what we got and it is good.
The target audience is a bunch of people PRECONDITIONED to expect the
Micro-Tax. We'll see how it plays out, but too much change, even for the
better, is scary for most Winsheep. It's a big enough change to look at
an
exactly.
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:03:16 -0400
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Walmart crowd is a very large segment of the buying public. I say
welcome to them!
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Hear! Hear!
Joel Hammer wrote:
If Walmart can get people to use linux on the desktop, we should all be
grateful. This superior attitude of some linux users vis a vis the ordinary
user is simply inappropriate.
I haven't tried lindows although I might. If the program warehouse
really
What may be the best thing about this is that it represents a source of
fairly cheap systems where everything works with Linux--nothing to stop you
from buying one of these and installing your favorite distribution. The
timing is kind of interesting, since availability of these almost
I've seen Mandrake come and goe at least once already from Walmart's
shelves. If they do Mandrake on the machines, too, they'll probably bring
it back again soon.
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:26:21 -0500
Stuart Biggerstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The
timing is kind of interesting, since
As near as I can tell, Mandrake left Walmart's shelves because of some
reorganization at Pearson, who published their U.S. boxed sets. Through
version 8.1, they were sold by Macmillan Software, while 8.2 is sold by
Pearson Education. Locally, 8.1 was about $30.00 at Best Buy and
On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart
selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear
it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition, Latest
program, and scroll down to the Lindows link. (You Need realplay8.)
Ken Moffat wrote:
On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart
selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear
it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition, Latest
program, and scroll down to the Lindows link. (You Need
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Ken Moffat wrote:
On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart
selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear
it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition, Latest
program, and scroll down to the
If Walmart can get people to use linux on the desktop, we should all be
grateful. This superior attitude of some linux users vis a vis the ordinary
user is simply inappropriate.
I haven't tried lindows although I might. If the program warehouse
really works (Imagine, certified software that
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