[ale] Field trip report: Fry's

[Jerald Sheets]

I have *really* got to get out there...

--J 

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Steven
A. DuChene
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:06 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Field trip report: Fry's

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




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