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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.
Wal-mart carries "Big Game Hunter for Linux"..
Until then, Joe Sixpack won't give a crap.
Sean D.
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Good point. Let's drop that Windows thing.
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
preloaded with DOS.
Thank you!
You're getting a Microtel!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Hmm, does this make Madrake Sam's Choice Linux... is is the Dr. Thunder to Red Hat?
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
Hmmm...let's see...
Powerbait Rubber Worms (check)
Sam's Pork Rinds (check)
Nascar Queen-size bed sheets (check)
George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine (check)
Unix box (check)
Chris
And PriceWaterhouseCoopers isn't evil on Mondays!
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
Sam Walton is long dead. But if anyone could piss off the dead, it'd be Microsoft.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
dude.. you forgot to begin your tag.. now my browser won't render it correctly!! And in netscape 4.x the whole page will be blank...
Is if they also pre-configure them with StarOffice or OpenOffice, with all the icons changed to look like MS Office XP icons, install Opera as the default browser, change the icons as above and set it up to mimic IE, install GIMP and change it as above to look like MS Paint, port Real Player and WMP to Linux and then somehow set it up so it crashes more often.
There's one thing computing teaches you, and that's that there's no point to remembering everything.
--Doug Copland
Hi !
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Thank you, stupid American.
You consider Mandrake like the Best distro of the world, and you are right !
As I said before, French is the smartest people of the World, and as Mandrake is French, Mandrake is the Best !
SuSE, distro of German, poor Quality, totalitarism, Nazism --> Burn it !
Redhat, Lindows, Windows : American , so like Americans are stupid, these products are not good !
thank you American, and please repeat after me
NOUS SOMMES LES MEILLEURS, NOUS SOMMES LES CHAMPIONS, ON VA BOTTER LE CUL DES AMERICAINS !
This rules!!! When did Wal-Mart become so cool. Now that they've put so many Mom&Pops out of business I guess they've got bigger fish to fry... like Micro$oft!!!!
[what?]
Fucking American
Without us, YOU would need to swear loyaulty for England.
Stupid American, We helped you during the war between the piggy americans leaded by Washington and the English.
Without us, you would be a colony of Great Britain.
Respect French people, use Mandrake and learn more about culture bacause you are stupid with your Hambugers...
A Mandrake preload on a cheap (damn near disposable) pc? I'm in heaven!
This is VERY good news.
GNU/Wal-Mart?
...they'll replace the traditional Walmart smiley face with a smiley tux =)
... I'd like to report a problem with my computer. I've been running it for several days straight and I just had to ask; Why hasn't it crashed yet? My last one did."
Wal-Mart... but... Linux PCs... but... Wal-Mart... but... Linux PCs....
AAAARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH
the computers pre-loaded with Mandrake are going to be available at walmart.com, not at Wal-Mart retail stores. There's a difference.
Right. To get the PCs preloaded with Mandrake, you simply drive to Wal-Mart, purchase a Lindows PC, take it home and sign up with an ISP. Then, connect to the Internet, visit walmart.com and order yourself a Mandrake PC. Finally, return the Lindows PC to the store and wait for your new Mandrake PC.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.