[ale] Field trip report: Fry's

[Steven A. DuChene]

I was in a MicroCenter in California (San Jose I think) a couple of weeks ago and I was
surprised to discover they had a desktop system in their monitor & plasma screen
display department running Linspire as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com>
Sent: Feb 4, 2005 11:50 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] Field trip report: Fry's

Well, my laptop video is not working anymore, so I need a new cheap
laptop.  Since Fry's had one for $599 I roped Charles Shapiro into
accompanying me to Fry's.

 

They were sold out, of course, but what I saw that interested me was
that there were two desktop systems for sale running Linux.  That's two
more than I've seen elsewhere.  One was on sale for $179 and seemed like
a great deal.  Athlon 2000+ with 40 Gig drive, but only 128MB of RAM.
The other was $379 I think, with a faster processor (some AMD chip I
haven't heard of), but otherwise about the same.

 

I figure those machines must be fully Linux compatible, so they are
prime candidates for loading a real Linux distribution onto.  I say
"real" because they were both running Linspire.  

 

Actually, only one of them was running Linspire-the other one was
_trying_ to run Linspire and failing.  It looked to me like someone had
type "rm -f /boot/grub/*" or something equivalent into a shell.  Since
Linspire logs you in as root, it worked.  What a clever solution
Linspire picked to the problem of allowing "one click installs".  Heh
heh.

 

Michael