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Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine

Posted by Hemos on from the how-to dept.

Azar writes "An article at Newsforge details the experience of installing Linux on Wal-Mart's OS-less PC. It states: 'A few months ago, super-sized discount store Wal-Mart made the headlines in the Linux world by becoming the first major U.S. retailer to offer PCs without Windows preloaded...While this was widely hailed in the Open Source community as a victory over the "Microsoft tax," which usually afflicts buyers of Linux PCs, one major question remained unanswered: How well do these machines support Linux?' Here is your answer." Newsforge is owned by OSDN, which also owns Slashdot, is all part of the sinister Andover keiretsu.

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  1. This will be immediately modded down, but... by zlowry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did it EVER occur to you people that, uhh... just maybe... Walmart has no intentions whatsoever of selling these to you? None! At all! They could care less about any person who reads slashdot! You don't matter! The only computer without an OS from Walmart that's going to be sold to a competent computer user is the one used for this review. Don't applaud Walmart, don't give them a hand, don't go buy something there. This is not, in any way, an advancement in the open-source movement!

    Now, maybe some of you can get a clue!

  2. Re:Wal-Mart bashing by More+Trouble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here ya go!

  3. Sinister Andover Keiretsu.. by motardo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Just for those who don't know, here's what the Sinister Andover Keiretsu is.

    -motardo

    (and yes, i know that Everything 2 is part of the Keiretsu too.)

  4. This is by far by Lispy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the least interesting artcile i've ever read on slashdot. I want my lifetime back.