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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."

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  1. What web server are they running? by Theovon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is it just me, or does it look like sub500.com is running on IIS?

  2. Windows only, eh? Lets see what their site runs... by Yenhsrav_Keviv · · Score: 1, Redundant
    lets see what netcraft.com has to say about their server:


    http://www.sub500.com was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 24-Jun-2004 19:34:58 GMT


    http://www.sub300.com was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 24-Jun-2004 19:03:06 GMT


    so much for linux only. very interesting indeed.