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Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart (.com)

Posted by timothy on from the better-mandrake-than-citroen dept.

caveat writes: "The Register is reporting that Wal-Mart is shipping PCs with Mandrake preinstalled. 'Prices range from $391 for a 900MHz Duron machine to $648 for a 2GHz Pentium 4 with CD-RW.' more power to them." So now walmart.com customers seeking a pre-installed Free OS aren't limited to Lindows. I wonder if any Wal-Mart manager is brave enough to actually set up a few machines in-store. Update: 07/15 15:35 GMT by T : As many people have pointed out, the systems running Mandrake -- just like the Lindows machines on offer -- are only available through Wal-Mart's website.

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  1. agree by Pros_n_Cons · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is going to be a mess. Linux ( I dont care what distro) is NOT ready for OEM, especially walmart where every redneck dress themselvs, eat, and buy guns under one roof. This should not be linux target audience.

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    -- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
  2. Re:Now how many people will actually buy one? by black88 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OK. Enough is enough!

    You can flame me, mod me down, ban me, I don't give a shit.

    The next time you fucking cunts want to cry and moan about the oppression of racial minorities and the evil of racism, take a look at yourselves.

    I am going to make an assumption here, and, though I could be wrong about this, I have never been wrong before.

    You people who simply love to throw around racial epithets like "redneck" are merely the tired bastions of White Self-loathing and Racial guilt that the left has been trying to pawn on the white masses for some time.

    You people are simply too damn transparent for your ruse to work. What the fuck problem do you people have with low income, working class White people? Does their apparent poverty frighten you, make you feel a little self conscious?

    I hope it does. Racism becomes no one, especially when it's directed at one's own ethnic group.

    Why is it ok to be so goddamn racist against whitey? I don't walk around talking shit about black folks, well, because I have enough sense and respect for my fellow man not to judge a person based on what their skin tone is.

    You think all white people of a certain socio economic background are stupid? Why?

    Because they don't fucking know what Limux is, what root means, or how to compile software?

    I have heard quite enough of you simpering little elitist hacker cunts and your arrogant attitudes and opinions.

    If I ever see any of you in a bar, and I catch you talking that racist shite, you can expect a left hook from yours truly.

    I tell ya what