Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 12:51:41 06/14/02
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On June 14, 2002 at 12:57:10, Allen Lake wrote: >What do the local hardware gurus think of these machine offerings from, of all >places, Walmart.com? > >PCs with Lindows OS preinstalled > >http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796&dept=3944&cat=86796 > > >PCs with no OS preinstalled > >http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A86798&dept=3944&cat=86798&sb=61&bti=0 What do you want to know ? The machine going for $299 with Lindows is cheap. If you have some chess programs for Windows, you probably want to remove Lindows and install Windows. If you like the idea of running Linux (no viruses etc), you probably would remove Lindows, at least after you get to know Linux, since you are running as "superuser", which is a security problem. Also, Lindows is a new Linux distribution, so new that it is still in beta. You could put some other Linux distro on it, like Redhat 7.3 or Mandrake 8.2 Martin.
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