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Mandrake to Come Preloaded on Wal-Mart PCs
surfimp writes "Here's a story from NewsForge: 'MandrakeSoft CEO Jacques Le Marois confirms the news this morning, and company spokeswoman Margaret Waters says, while a contract with Microtel has not been finalized, the company is working on getting Mandrake certified to run like clockwork on the Microtel systems. Waters is hopeful that the dotted line will be signed and PCs up for sale by the end of next week.'" Update: 06/20 17:21 GMT by T : Ooops! The Mandrake spokeswoman's name is Margaret Waples, not Waters. Apologies, and thanks to Todd Lyons of Mandrakesoft for the correction.
you know i have two problems with wal-mart putting linux on anything. 1. the people who buy Pc's at wal-mart are the type of people that will never get_it 2. the people selling the pc's will probally mis-inform the customers and make linux in general look bad
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I am sick of these comments, please stop.
I don't shop at Walmart on a regular basis but I do shop there for items I cannot find elsewhere easily.
I am not what you would call the "upstanding white collar citizen" but I am not "Joe Sixpack".
They have excellent deals on DVDs (old school numbers than are less than $10) and have decent deals on a wide range of other items that Meijer and K-Mart just don't carry.
Cut out the "hick" shit about Walmart. They are an extremely sucessful company that is actually **TRYING** to do something positive for their customers (I don't agree w/their choice of distributions, but that is a previous post).
The pessimist position here is that Wal-Mart knows full well that 99% of consumers will immediately get their smart uncle Bob to come over, reformat the hard drive, and install a version of Windows. So, the installation of Mandrake is just a ploy to make their PC's cheaper than their competition and get sales.
I'm not saying that Mandrake isn't good, or that Linux isn't fun to run. I'm just saying that the average consumer is going to be upset when they find that they can't run Microsoft Word or Quicken.
- Twid
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
Mandrake has far to many betas, and dosn't seem to put updates together for them (at least not on there updates site).
e.g
Mandrake 8.2 ships with,
Mozilla version 1
OpenOffice version 1
Wine version anything
KDevelope 2.1(Beta)
etc.....
There are no updates to Wine on there update site, which is bad since wine is almost 'ready?'
No Mozilla Update,
No OpenOffice Update,
No Kdevelop update.
etc....
If there going to ship beta's and call them selfs 'use-friendly' then they should give you use-friendly builds of updates, or releases as they come along, Mandrake is after all a 'DISTRIBURION'?
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
With all of these conflicting stories coming out of NewsForge today... I would have to question the integrity of their editing staff. I mean comeon guys, in the last two days we've gotten:
(1) Lindows is shipping on Microtel PCs at Walmart!
(2) Lindows/Walmart back off on Windows compatibility claims
(3) Walmart is now going to ship PCs with Mandrake.
This is either really poor reporting or Walmarts Board of Directors has started freebasing. I think the choice here is obvious so I will leave it to you.
J
P.S. In case you were wondering, Walmarts Board of Directors is smoking the weed - they haven't started freebasing quite yet.
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I'm guessing you would have rolled over for the Nazis too ehh. Kiss my American ass biotch. You French can do squat except sell out all your people in Louisiana after they were kicked from Canada for refusing to swear loyalty to England.
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
Horrible install with Mandrake 8.2. Buggy. X crashing constantly. Installed RedHat 7.2. No problems. I don't think Mandrake is the right distro for the Wal-Mart crowd.
Oh no! They had to change their cover! Oh my, what's next!
Puhleease. This is silly. It's not like trying to not offend your customers is a nefarious purpose. What do you think they should do?
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> As a parent, I don't want my child seeing racy
> stuff just walking in a store. I'd like to be able
>to _shop_ without having to explain why such
> material is indecent.
Then go join the Amish and don't inconvenience the rest of us.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.