[ale] Microcenter sells a PC loaded with Linux! of 20)

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Tue May 21 10:48:29 EDT 2013


I looked at the Samsung Chrome book the other day in BestBuy. Looks good
and feels good. Still Linux even customized!


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Dell has been offering their OptiPlex workstations with Ubuntu for a
> while, now.
> Too bad that is the only option.  The good thing is that it means they
> have hardware tested/capable of running on Linux with a minimal amount of
> tinkering.
> Allen B.
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> Allen Beddingfield
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> The University of Alabama
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> Probably. OTOH, I thought seeing Fry's Electronics online ads on some
> Android notebooks.
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> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Jay Lozier - jslozier at gmail.com<mailto:
> jslozier at gmail.com> <gmane.mazilo.b9f364a3c8.jslozier#gmail.com at ob.0sg.net
> <mailto:gmane.mazilo.b9f364a3c8.jslozier#gmail.com at ob.0sg.net>> wrote:
> Does this mean M$ is slowly sinking. I here more companies are selling a
> Linux box or two (usually Ubuntu) as if they are beginning to hedge their
> bets on Windows.
>
> On Sun, 19 May 2013 23:46:12 -0400, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> http://microcenter.com/product/410171/N106_Desktop_Computer
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