[CoLoCo] $199 Linux PC at Sears

[Rick Ross]

It used to be its own Debian distro, but now they use Ubuntu.

On Jan 30, 2008 4:03 PM, TheZorch <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Rick Ross wrote:
>
> Say, just got a letter from my ol' buddy Larry Ketter over at Linspire
> (yeah, me and a few thousand of his other "closest friends") about a new
> Freespire-based PC at Sears for $199. This link promises to take you to that
> letter, if anyone's interested. The letter includes a comparison between the
> Sears PC and the original (2002-model) Walmart PC.
>
> www.linspire.com/linspireletter
>
> --Rick
>
> Comparing a system from 2002 to a system in 2008 isn't a fair comparison.
> Of course technology would have greatly evolved since then.  What distro is
> Lin/Freespire based on?  Red Hat, Debian, or Slackware?
>
> The lack of a DVD drive is a real downer.
>
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