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Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine
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.
I would have withheld judgement if I knew you'd be publishing a link to an article about installing an OS on a PC.
--gazbo, looking forward to articles investigating installing 'food' into a 'fridge'.
if someone can learn how to use/install linux on a pc, they can also learn how to build their own PC. I applaud the effort by walmart, but after that snazzy processor they mention i have no doubt there is a no name motherboard, crappy generic ram, a slow 5400rpm hd, etc.
:)
Build your own, you will feel better in the morning
It is a friggin computer.
/. editors and obviously you would stop thinking its "new" or "inventive" to put linux on yet another PC. Yipee, old news, who cares?
Its like buying a PC from Price Choppers then saying "I put linux on a PC from P.C.!"
Who gives a friggin rats ass?
Linux/FreeBSD/Windows they're all gonna work on virtually any form of x86 PC no matter where you buy it from.
One thing I wished is that stupid idiots like the
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Nothing like Wal-Mart doing whatever they can to put small computer shops, who offer bare computers without Windows, out of business.