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Re: [PLUG] Walmart Lindows Box - impression
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if i had waited a week i could have gotten one with mandrake loaded instead ;-(
> 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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