Walmart.com to Sell Stand-alone LindowsOS
[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
Walmart.com has begun selling Lindows.com Inc.’s Linux-based
operating system, the first stand-alone operating system not made
by Microsoft Corp. to be featured at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s online
store, Lindows.com announced Tuesday.“LindowsOS 3.0 Membership Edition is available now at
Walmart.com for $98.72. The operating system comes with a one-year
membership to the Lindows.com Warehouse, a collection of over 1,700
software programs. The membership lets users download any of the
Warehouse programs for free and keep them for life…”
CNET News: Sam’s Joins $300 Linux PC Club
[ Thanks to David
Poulton for this link. ]
“Sam’s Club, the members-only branch of retail giant Wal-Mart,
has entered the budget PC race with a $299 system running Red Hat’s
version of the Linux operating system.“The Sam’s Club PCs are built by CPUBuilders, a division of
Wichita, Kan.-based hardware maker Stratitec specializing in budget
PCs. The Sam’s Club offerings, sold only through the retailer’s Web
site, mirror similar moves by Wal-Mart, which offers a number of
low-cost Linux PCs through its Web site.“The $299 ‘starter system’ sold by Sam’s Club runs on a 1.1GHz
Duron processor from Advanced Micro Devices and includes a 20GB
hard drive, built-in Ethernet and modem, and an integrated graphics
processor. The current version has 128MB of memory, but CPUBuilders
plans to upgrade the configuration soon to 256MB. A 17-inch monitor
is available for another $100…”