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Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux

Posted by timothy on from the from-high-end-to-everyman dept.

badboy3062 writes "Wal-Mart this week started selling Microtel PCs preloaded with Sun's Java Desktop System. Prices start at under $300 for a system without a floppy drive or monitor. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, says this move is just another step in its plan to gain new audiences for its technologies."

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  1. Wal-Mart Sells PCs Preloaded With Sun's Linux by DR+SoB · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun's Linux? Sun has their own flavour of Linux now? Who knew?

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    Mod +5 Drunk
  2. This is just pathetic... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    how the mighty have fallen. All the way to freaking Walmart Hell.

  3. I Love Walmart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I Love Walmart. It is hard not to sympathize with them when there are the idiots who try to go to municipal goverments and ban Wal-Mart construction (instead of just not shopping there if they don't like it) and the union thugs who are turned purple with rage because Wal-Mart lets its workers choose whether or not to give money to unions.

  4. some this some that by lamp77 · · Score: 0, Troll

    some one has a hard on for the word "some".

  5. Re:Walmart equals a win for linux by NineNine · · Score: 1, Troll

    Walmart is a shitty, evil company that makes Microsoft look like Ben & Jerry's. Any way you slice it, Wal-Mart is a shit-hole that carries cheap, shoddy stuff and pays their employees crap, all the while making more and more wonderful giant concrete parking lot. If you think that Wal-Mart is a more reputable company than MS, you've got your head up your ass.