> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Eric Gilliland
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:47 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
> 
> 
> >You have to remember, most of the people on this list are
> >basically building their own from preexisting hardware.
> 
> Is this true?  I don't know you guys so I'm not sure.  I
> bought a Dell computer that had windows and installed Linux
> myself.  The only mod I've done is yanking out the old
> winmodem and replacing it with a hardware modem.
> 
> What's the consensus? Are you guys building your own out
> there?
Don't take me so literally, sheesh. What I meant by building our own,
was taking a system that already had an OS on it, destroying that and
installing Linux on it. There is a big difference here. What Wal-Mart is

doing is building 4 basic systems by ghosting a completely debugged
install
on "billions and billions" of PCs.