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Wal-Mart Sells $199 Linux Computer
www.physorg.com ^ | 10/31/2007 | PETER SVENSSON

Posted on 11/05/2007 12:19:20 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Recovering_Democrat

Are they the ones who make “EMachines”?...........


41 posted on 11/05/2007 2:33:47 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Red Badger
I run PCLinuxOS. Who says Linux is for geeks? Its the most user friendly distro I've tried!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

42 posted on 11/05/2007 2:35:31 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Astronaut
You haven't tried PCLinux2007. It detects your wireless card before it starts up and the Synaptic package manager will download and install software packages without dependency hell. The KDE desktop is a lot like Windows so if you're used to Windows, you will get the hang of KDE in no time.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

43 posted on 11/05/2007 2:38:49 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: wally_bert
I decided to install it on my hard drive once I saw it found my hardware on the Live CD! PCLinuxOS is a branch of Mandriva Linux and its easy to install and configure. That ought to be the future of Linux. If I can do it, grandma should be able to do it. And the cost of this operating system? FREE!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

44 posted on 11/05/2007 2:43:22 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Constantine XIII

Explain tagline please.


45 posted on 11/05/2007 2:44:24 PM PST by RockinRight (The Council on Illuminated Foreign Masons told me to watch you from my black helicopter.)
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To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ..

46 posted on 11/05/2007 3:09:07 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: RockinRight

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28video_game%29

and also:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs

^_^


47 posted on 11/05/2007 3:14:00 PM PST by Constantine XIII (THE CAKE IS A LIE)
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To: RockinRight

Also, nice homepage. Pat Benatar is nothing to be ashamed of. XD


48 posted on 11/05/2007 3:16:10 PM PST by Constantine XIII (THE CAKE IS A LIE)
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To: Astronaut

I’ll tell you this: I switched, cold turkey, from years of XP to Kubuntu. I don’t know linux from a hole in the wall. I function beautifully in Kubuntu. I use Adept to install new programs so I don’t have to find repositories or use command lines (unless I want to). Kubuntu is made for the masses of non-nerds.


49 posted on 11/05/2007 3:22:57 PM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: gridlock; ShadowAce; joebuck
Just buy the board...for $59....operating system is included...I believe:

gOS...An alternative OS for the masses.

50 posted on 11/05/2007 3:26:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Red Badger
I remember buying a mail order HD, a whopping 40 MB $400, to put in my old Turbo XT. I wondered, “What in the world will I ever fill this up with?”.......

Same here. It was 1984 and I had just taken delivery of an XT clone with two 5-1/4" floppy drives and a 20 meg hard drive and an Epson near letter quality dot-matrix printer. I clearly remember the feeling of sitting at my desk after setting it up knowing that I would never need to buy another piece of computer equipment.

51 posted on 11/05/2007 3:43:31 PM PST by KevinB
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To: yuleeyahoo
For no more than my wife uses hers (IM, word processing, internet, and mail,), any Linux distro would be good for her. I keep trying to talk her into taking the plunge, even on a dual boot basis or use a live CD for a week.

She actually had to use Knoppix for a few days a couple of years ago when there was an HD problem on hers and I wasn't available to work on it. It didn't skip a beat.

With all the XP boxes I support at work, the endless cycles of restarts is so frustrating sometimes. A policy where I am at is that no one can know anybody else's password. That is great if the user doesn't disappear for varying amounts of time at random intervals.

Linux is wonderful in that it rarely, if ever, needs a restart during normal use. Something else I wish MS had (that worked) as an equivalent would be the "X-Kill" to stop crashed programs.

My boss is a MCP (I used to be, long story) and I freaked that person out with my live CD's running on presumed dead Windows boxes. I had to fill out a form to have them around officially and gladly did. I welcome anyone around to load them up and check them out.

With all of the programming minds where I am at, building some kind of custom Linux based image to run things day to day, would solve a lot of problems in terms of reliabiilty.

I have learned to really hate Active Directory in the past few months. Mysterious glitches, random rejections of passwords, profile corruption, and the sheer overhead of AD is 95% of my typical support effort.


52 posted on 11/05/2007 3:55:56 PM PST by wally_bert (Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair!)
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To: Astronaut

Welcome to the new millennium. First off, this so called pc is a recipe for failure. It’s just a google money making ad harvesting gimmick...just like their so called phone.

But, to my point. To find, install, and run new software on an Ubuntu, Mandrake, Red Hat, Mepis, Minix, Debian, SuSe, etc, etc, etc, distro, you need to...

1. Click on your package manager
2. Select the software to install
3. Click Apply.
4. Click on the Panel (Menu) and click on the software you just installed to run it.

It really is that simple. The other night I had my wife, who hasn’t ever seen a Linux machine, can’t even spell geek, install Ubuntu. The rules were...she couldn’t ask any questions at all.

37 minutes later, she had a fully functioning Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty distro up and running and surfing the net, and playing cd’s. And it does come ready to work or play.

Download an iso, and burn it, then give it a whirl by running it “live” from the cd, you might be surprised. :)


53 posted on 11/05/2007 6:26:08 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
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To: driftdiver

All of the current distro’s auto setup and connect.

Download and try the cd LIVE version, you’ll be surprised.


54 posted on 11/05/2007 6:30:22 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
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To: ari-freedom
also people want the windows software, not linux software

I thought Linux was open source software and hence free... ?

55 posted on 11/05/2007 6:30:45 PM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: RichardW
new “refurbished” Dell Vista machine for $400 from Dell and for all the bad press that Vista has received I think it is a bad rap

New & refurbished? LOL I wonder why? All those "bad raps" you heard about, no doubt.

My brother just bought a New refurbished Dell, but got it with Linux pre-installed, should be here tomorrow or Wed.

He chose Linux, because he has been playing around with one of my Ubuntu boxes, and likes the clean lines, the smooth interface, the ease and economy of finding and installing software, and the fact that it, a 700 mhz P4 outperforms his dual core Vista box, and knowing that he doesn't have to buy anti-virus and firewall software each year.

Hey Vista...I'm glad I missed ya'!
56 posted on 11/05/2007 6:37:36 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
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To: Red Badger

E-Machines was bought by Gateway a few years ago. A few months ago, Acer bought Gateway.


57 posted on 11/05/2007 6:40:38 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

VIA Processor.


58 posted on 11/05/2007 6:44:20 PM PST by papasmurf (sudo apt - get install FRed Thompson)
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To: Constantine XIII
LOL, you kind of dated ur-self there. :)

My 1983 vintage Xenix system still runs fine. The UUCP connectivity isn't nearly as attractive today. Trying to keep the smart UUCP database to compute the ideal "bang path" from end to end was a bit tiresome too. It was certainly more convenient than FIDO BBS or FIDOnet. I ported Phil Karn's "Net" TCP/IP software and put that Xenix node on the internet in 1985 using a SLIP link. That was a big improvement. Still, small potatoes compared to what we have now.

59 posted on 11/05/2007 6:53:39 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: gridlock
At $199, I would buy one just for hobby purposes. It would be fun to mess around with Linux.

Heck, just buy a second-hand one from Ebay or something for $75 or $100 and download it yourself.

60 posted on 11/05/2007 6:55:55 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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