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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. Great by mothz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing like a high-profile store in the back of a car wash to raise awareness for Free Software.

  2. Wait a minute... by slashrogue · · Score: 5, Funny

    You say I can get a car wash and buy Linux-based software at the same time! Now will those car wash babes be geeks too?!? I think my car's dirty...

    1. Re:Wait a minute... by justkarl · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, car washes will be administered by outsourced programmers who desperately need work.

    2. Re:Wait a minute... by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Now will those car wash babes be geeks too?!? I think my car's dirty..."

      From your comments, it looks like your car's not the only thing that's dirty.

  3. In other news... by revery · · Score: 5, Funny

    A sweat soaked Steve Ballmer announced that many stores that sell Windows will also be opening car washes to compete with this most recent threat from Linux.

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    Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
    or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.

  4. Wash Me by rute_1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The question is: Do they do Windows?

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

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

  6. 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..

  7. Re:Great to see a Linux-only store by nocomment · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to see it, but unfortunately their IIS webservers couldn't handle the crunch.

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