[CoLoCo] Walmart Selling Ubuntu PC's

[David L. Willson]

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The computer you can buy:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7754614
The oh-so-empty website for the OS that runs the computer you can buy:
http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 10:59 -0600, Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
> If my memory serves me correctly, this is not the first Linux PC that
> Wal-Mart has sold. Most people bought them and installed Windows. I
> think they sold Lindows / Linspire systems. On Walmarts website it
> says that the computer runs the "gOS" operating system, so even if
> someone has heard of Ubuntu, their not going to know that this is part
> of it. 
> 
> It kind of seems like a waste to me. If you want to sell them label it
> as Ubuntu, which a lot more people have heard of and has a huge
> support system.
> 
> Also, its apparently is in a huge tower, because market research shows
> walmart customer equate size with quality. It would have been nice to
> be able to buy a $200 mini PC to use as a media system. 
> 
> On Nov 1, 2007 10:36 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         phillip tribble wrote:
>         > http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html
>         
>         I learned about this on Digg.com, there's a lot of Ubuntu news
>         that gets
>         posted there by the way.  The Xfce window manager might have
>         been a
>         better choice than Enlightenment, but its still good to see
>         Linux 
>         systems making it into mainstream stores like this.
>          Especially systems
>         that use Ubuntu or Ubuntu derivatives like gOS.
>         
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