Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as LindowsOS to get
around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't
recall what it is named)
which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad
way to introduce
the general public to Linux, except there is some sort of annual
I had good luck with Earthlink when I was on dial-up, and still
have it
for broadband. Following are my notes for dial-up:
connection name: Earthlink jmarcom
authenticationPAP IP address (provided)
Login ELN/jmarcom checkmark no autoconfig
host