Is CompUSA.com Poised to Become the Crazy Eddie of Linux? | Linux Today

Is CompUSA.com Poised to Become the Crazy Eddie of Linux?

Written By
JP
Jason Perlow
Oct 20, 2008

“With its rock-bottom prices, CompUSA could be positioned to be
the king of cheap Linux-based PC sales, if they take this to the
next level, which would be to preload the OS on its bargain PC
refurbs and get some value-added SystemMAX OEM whiteboxes out there
with Linux pre-installed. CompUSA.com-branded $400 or less Quad
Core PCs sans-monitor with 4GB RAM and 500GB hard disks running on
Ubuntu? I can see it.”

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