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Mandrake Hits Wal-Mart (.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday July 15, 2002 @01:59AM 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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Re:Now how many people will actually buy one? by oyenstikker · 2002-07-15 02:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Easy. They sell him Windows for another 200USD.

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They'll have to change the name of fsck by gelfling · 2002-07-15 02:57 · Score: 5, Funny

It's too close to.....well you know. And Walmart has a strict policy of protecting us from dirty words and evil thoughts.

Come to think of it, kill will have to change too.