[CoLoCo] Walmart Selling Ubuntu PC's

[TJ Heaney]

I'm curious,

it advertises being able to play DVDs. Does that mean the dvdcss packages
are installed?


On 11/1/07, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
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> The computer you can buy:
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614
> The oh-so-empty website for the OS that runs the computer you can buy:
> http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:59 -0600, Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
> > If my memory serves me correctly, this is not the first Linux PC that
> > Wal-Mart has sold. Most people bought them and installed Windows. I
> > think they sold Lindows / Linspire systems. On Walmarts website it
> > says that the computer runs the "gOS" operating system, so even if
> > someone has heard of Ubuntu, their not going to know that this is part
> > of it.
> >
> > It kind of seems like a waste to me. If you want to sell them label it
> > as Ubuntu, which a lot more people have heard of and has a huge
> > support system.
> >
> > Also, its apparently is in a huge tower, because market research shows
> > walmart customer equate size with quality. It would have been nice to
> > be able to buy a $200 mini PC to use as a media system.
> >
> > On Nov 1, 2007 10:36 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         phillip tribble wrote:
> >         > http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html
> >
> >         I learned about this on Digg.com, there's a lot of Ubuntu news
> >         that gets
> >         posted there by the way.  The Xfce window manager might have
> >         been a
> >         better choice than Enlightenment, but its still good to see
> >         Linux
> >         systems making it into mainstream stores like this.
> >          Especially systems
> >         that use Ubuntu or Ubuntu derivatives like gOS.
> >
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