Re: [PLUG] Walmart Lindows Box - impression

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Friday 19 July 2002 08:23 am, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> my walmart lindows box arived yesterday. i took a look at lindows,
> for curiosity. i hope that lindows has a large staff in their
> customer service department, because there are very few applications
> installed. every menu item has an "add" item, which launches Konq
> with a link to the lindows software wharehouse. problem was, they
> have more menu items than software. and to get any of the software,
> you had to pay $99 or something.
>
> as for the OS itself. it's a 2.4.18 kernel. KDE desktop, i didn't
> think to check if it was 2 or 3. included software - mail (kmail? i
> didn't check), konsole, network config, cd player, video player,
> browser, file manager, kde configuration applets, and a very few
> games. if i was a regular user, i'd probably be disappointed.
>
> i am no longer using lindows on that box.

It's a shame that they are charging for so much freely available 
software.  Especially since I would expect most of the buyers of the 
cheap machine to be particularly cost conscious.  Sounds doomed.  
that's a shame because walmart's market position could put a small, but 
significant dent in the MS OS monopoly (possibly Mac-sized).

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