Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled

[Jim Herrmann]

I read today that the vesion of Lindows is a version that's not even 
available yet.  The drivers are holding back the general of the Lindows 
distro, but for this machine they have finished all the drivers already.  
They only have to deal with certain hardware.  I don't think these machines 
are targeted for those that like to tweak their hardware.

On a more encouraging note, Mandrake will soon be an option on the Microtel 
PCs from WalMart.  That should be better yet.  They haven't finalized the 
deal, but I saw it on slashdot, I think, that a deal will be done next week.

Peace,
Jim

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 08:58 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> 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.