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First Linux-only Retail Store?

Posted by michael on from the gone-crazy-from-the-cold dept.

Greedo writes "The Toronto Star is reporting that 'Toronto will become home this weekend to what's being touted as the first retail computer store devoted exclusively to Linux-based products.' The store, Sub500.com, will sell PCs and laptop computers based on Linspire. Marc and David Silverman had been selling Linux products over the Web for 18 months. They also operate a car wash and figured they could use surplus office space at that location to open a Linux store."

7 of 351 comments (clear)

  1. Great to see a Linux-only store by Darragh_IRL · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I think it's great to see a store selling only Linux computers. Fair play to Sub500.com and Linspire for setting this up!

  2. first store? by Slyder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not the first one I've heard of - there used to be one in Atlanta, near Georgia Tech, though it went out of business a little while ago. Too bad, they had some cool stuff.

  3. Eat your own dog food? by jhkoh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah, too bad their web site looks to be running on Windows.

  4. FrontPage?! by JebuZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did anyone else notice the meta tags on this page?

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="cheap, inexpensive, computers, new, computer, system, upgrade, replace, buy, AMD, Intel, looking, buy, sale, tower, industry, bulk, volume, rebate, deal, deals, special, compute, new, lindows, Microsoft, burner, 299, sub300">
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
    <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">

    Oh the irony..

  5. Re:What web server are they running? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    wget -S http://www.sub500.com/
    --15:44:18-- http://www.sub500.com/
    => `index.html'
    Connecting to www.sub500.com:80... connected!
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    2 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    3 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
    4 MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
    5 Cache-Control: no-cache
    6 Expires: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:01 GMT
    7 Connection: keep-alive
    8 Content-Location: http://www.sub500.com/index.htm
    9 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:01 GMT
    10 Content-Type: text/html
    11 Accept-Ranges: bytes
    12 Last-Modified: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:13:01 GMT
    13 ETag: "1a3aaf564559c41:99d"
    14 Content-Length: 15735

  6. Less consumer confusion ? by TheUncleBob · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they only stock linux pc's and linux software, it could provide a one stop shop for locals pc needs without the confusion of "will this (windows) software run on my pc?" Sometimes less choice is better.

  7. Re:Wait a minute... by FyRE666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Car wash babes direct from the Ministry of Sound ;-)

    (If it stops after the title screen, hit the "Next"/"FF" button in WMP)...

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    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.