Microtel from walmart?

gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org
Thu Nov 14 15:43:47 CST 2002


I am thinking about getting one too, but I doesn't look very exandable.
(only 1 free PCI slot?, no USB?.  Is this right?) Does it have room for a
second harddrive?

> We bought one at work for "research" purposes. Lindows is based on
Debian,
> with a butchered KDE. "Click and Run" works off of Debian's apt-get
utility
> (at least it appears to). Instead of paying $99 for 2 years of click and
> run, and tech support (which really isn't bad) I would just use apt-get
and
> install whatever packages you want. I've installed apache, done an
update
> and an upgrade, downloaded various utilities (it doesn't come packaged
with
> man, or a rpm utility). Wine is pre-configured, and runs the various M$
> Office viewers, we opted for the click and run subscription and
installed
> Star Office. One plus is the OS installs in around 10 minutes. The
downside
> is you don't have any choices on packages to install, and have no input
into
> the install process at all. Buy the box, look into Lindows, then install
> Mandrake or Red Hat. The 'puter itself seems fine for a generic box.
>




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