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Crunchy(Cracked)Butter

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« on: 8 October 2002, 19:52 »
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27489.html

"Evesham is bundle the open source Lindows OS on a new bargain basement PC knocked out at

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« Reply #1 on: 8 October 2002, 19:55 »
That is bad because it's Lindows yuk, but its kinda good because its a respected british PC builder backing Linux for the average joe. ball and rolling come into mind.
Evesham make some nice PC's, I make better ones though  
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« Reply #2 on: 8 October 2002, 19:57 »
Its like the Walmart ones. They should be putting Red Hat 8.0 on them instead... it would be $300 cheaper then Lindows... (how does that make sense when the walmrt computers cost $299???)

[ October 08, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]

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« Reply #3 on: 8 October 2002, 20:08 »
I would buy one if only to format the drive and have some more coffee coasters then install a proper linux distro.

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« Reply #4 on: 8 October 2002, 22:18 »
quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
Its like the Walmart ones. They should be putting Red Hat 8.0 on them instead... it would be $300 cheaper then Lindows... (how does that make sense when the walmrt computers cost $299???)

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Actually walmart sells pcs with lindows and mandrake. The cheapest mandrake pc is $391, while the cheapest lindows pc is $199 The lindows pcs use those cheap via c3 800 mhz while the mandrake uses the amd duron 900mhz. Also the mandrake comes with a 40 gig hard drive compared to the lindows paltry 10 gig unit. Of course for around the same price as the mandrake setup, you could get a lindows pc with an amd athlon 1600+ and a 40 gig hard drive.
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« Reply #5 on: 9 October 2002, 00:28 »
how is walmart selling them so cheap?
Lindows costs $299 to buy it in a store
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« Reply #6 on: 9 October 2002, 01:27 »
Is that USD or CAD?
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« Reply #7 on: 9 October 2002, 08:56 »
quote:
Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
how is walmart selling them so cheap?
Lindows costs $299 to buy it in a store



and what store are you buying it in?  it only costs $99 to become a Lindows Insider for a year and download everything in that time for "free"
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