Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold out ( 10,000 sold...running Linux Ubuntu )

ZDNET ^ | November 13th, 2007 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

[bigdcaldavis]

You forgot the part where the customer says “Linux is by them A-rabs” and “Linux is al-Qaeda”. :-p

[bigdcaldavis]

Frozen Bubble is the best. Plus, there are some very good first-person tournament-style shooters like OpenArena. And the upcoming version of Unreal Tournament is supposed to have a Linux “retail box” version.

[Red Badger]

This is obviously a ploy by Microsoft to get everybody turned off of Linux when all these machines crap out at once!.........

"/S".................

[DaGman]

"I personally believe the majority of the people who buy them are going to pump them full of warez and put them in the family room for the kids."

You don't need warez or even need to buy any new software. All the software in the the Ubuntu software repository is free. In fact, it's advised that you not install software from anywhere else but the Ubuntu repository for compatibility reasons and to be sure it's installed correctly.

Using my IBM laptop here running Ubuntu, and using a great free CAD program called Qcad, I designed the deck around my pool and the sprinkler system for my backyard. Just simple stuff, I know, but I've never used a CAD program before and I made it pretty intricate. I understand that Qcad will do anything the high end Windows based programs will do.

[DaGman]

Check out Audacity. It's everything you need in sound editing software. I love it.

[bigdcaldavis]

I’m sure solitaire runs fine!

Solitaire sure does. gOS has the same "Aisleriot Solitaire" and all the other games that's found on Ubuntu (vanilla Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu).

[Lx]

Ah, the days when IDE came out and you had to physically remove and replace the Bios chips to support IDE.
It sure was nice to have a ROM burner heh heh.

[bigdcaldavis]

I loooove Audacity. I have a few music videos on one of my YouTube channels. I used Audacity to do the remixing of the songs (they're more like "glorified copy-and-paste" efforts, lol) and then I used Avidemux to make the videos. All done on Ubuntu. Here they are:

"The Price Is Right" Music Cue - Cue 86 (2007 Remix)"

"The Price Is Right" Music Cue - The Big Banana (2007 Remix)

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (2007 Remix)

[tutstar]

gnip...

[tutstar]

gnip...

[steve86]

My old group’s first hard drive was a 10 mB Winchester for a DEC system

If I'm thinking of the same drive it took a healthy man to carry one of those up three flights of stairs (and most women wouldn't consider it, except for one female DEC Tech who was in better shape than most of the men).

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

So it’s 25,000 more memory for less than money. Crazy.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

Must mean the High end games...I’m sure solitaire runs fine!

Exactly. There are plenty of fine games out there that don't need a $1000 + computer to run it. It's just in the past 3 or 4 years that the games have become memory and graphics card hogs.

Just my opinion of course.