Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday April 30, 2002 @11:30PM 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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Better yet by JCCyC · 2002-05-01 03:34 · Score: 1, Redundant

Ask them to offer the option of removing that POS losemodem for an additional $5 price cut. I can see businesses interested in these machines, and businesses normally don't need modems at all. Ditto for people with broadband.