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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. whheeeeee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    whee

    1. Re:whheeeeee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      how can you mod this as offtopic? Clearly this person is expressing their great joy over the fact that the conglomerate monopolistic-like walmart is selling his/her beloved distribution of linux.

      I for one find it amusing that you people trash Microsoft because of it's practices, but praise walmart because it embraces Linux a little bit. Here's some tips for you: Walmart increasingly is pushing its nose into small communities where it drives all the local mom and pop shops out of business, but then gives every non-profit organization in the community a few hundred bucks so they'll praise how great walmart is without realizing they are now no different than every other small town with a walmart in the world. Fuck walmart.

  2. Can buy one online by justanyone · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, but can we buy one online from them via walmart.com?

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  3. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CLiT SuX0r5

  4. F is for Firsty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's good enough for me!
    F is for Firsty,
    That's good enough for me!
    F is for Firsty,
    That's good enough for me!
    Firsty firsty firsty ENDS WITH POST!!!

  5. Wal*Mart welcome to the decline of western civ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Worthless company. Built off the backs of others. Then again what company isn't.

  6. Re:this could be my last CLIT post of the day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1: Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)

    2: Tool - Schizm

    3: Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence

    4: Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode

    5: Manfred Mann Earth Band - Blinded by the Light

    The Simpsons did it.

  7. [Trolling Stones] Almost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry, but you were wrong about #3. I would also have accepted Bruce Springsteen for #5, as his is the original, but Manfred Mann's is more well known.

  8. Re:Walmart vs. MS by Pros_n_Cons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quick how do I mod up, this is FUCKING hilarious! "Walmart Linux?" hahaha my god thats funny.

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  9. What's really interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is that Tom Hanks gets shot at the end, and then shoots Jude Law as he's dying.

  10. Re:Indirectly claiming a flaw in Linux, tim? by garett_spencley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    int main()
    {
    int i;
    for (;;)
    {
    printf("Walmart sucks\n");
    }
    }

    To be extremely anal and OT:

    What's the "i" for???? Also your main() returns an int but you don't have a return....

    I would implement that like:

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main(void)
    {
    while(1)
    fputs("Walmart sucks\n", stdout);

    return 0;
    }

    I have _way_ too much time on my hands....

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