Re: [PLUG] Anybody ever buy one of those Walmart PCs?

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

> For $300, I could get an AMD Duron 1.6GHz, 256M RAM, 40G harddrive (only 1
> PCI slot, unfortunately). Which, for my home server, should suffice I think,
> since I had been using a P3-500. This would actually be an improvement. 

I'ld personally hesitate to buy something like that from Walmart (then 
again I'm boycotting Walmart anyway, but that's another issue).  While 
the Lindows machine is guaranteed to be operating Linux and to have 
drivers, it's not clear that drivers for things like any NIC, video card 
or other peripherals is easily available.  I have no idea what hardware 
Nortel uses, but if it's propietary.  The AMD Duron sounds like a better 
choice and I guess you'ld better learn to love USB for many things.

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