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Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold out ( 10,000 sold...running Linux Ubuntu )
ZDNET ^
| November 13th, 2007
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Posted on 11/13/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: VeniVidiVici
You forgot the part where the customer says “Linux is by them A-rabs” and “Linux is al-Qaeda”. :-p
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posted on
11/16/2007 8:14:43 PM PST
by
bigdcaldavis
("Screw Kahlifornia. Gimme Kolinahr." - Me)
To: MarkL
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.
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posted on
11/16/2007 8:21:44 PM PST
by
bigdcaldavis
("Screw Kahlifornia. Gimme Kolinahr." - Me)
To: bigdcaldavis
This is obviously a ploy by Microsoft to get everybody turned off of Linux when all these machines crap out at once!......... "/S".................
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posted on
11/19/2007 5:15:59 AM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Petronski
"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.
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posted on
11/19/2007 5:36:08 AM PST
by
DaGman
(`)
To: TalBlack
Check out
Audacity. It's everything you need in sound editing software. I love it.
185
posted on
11/19/2007 5:40:34 AM PST
by
DaGman
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Im 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).
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posted on
12/06/2007 1:47:32 PM PST
by
bigdcaldavis
("Screw Kahlifornia. Gimme Kolinahr." - Me)
To: Red Badger
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.
187
posted on
12/06/2007 1:50:33 PM PST
by
Lx
((Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.))
To: DaGman
188
posted on
12/11/2007 11:48:31 PM PST
by
bigdcaldavis
("Screw Kahlifornia. Gimme Kolinahr." - Me)
To: Nightshift
189
posted on
12/18/2007 4:54:11 PM PST
by
tutstar
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To: Nightshift
190
posted on
12/18/2007 4:56:59 PM PST
by
tutstar
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To: Tirian
My old groups 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).
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posted on
12/18/2007 5:11:11 PM PST
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So it’s 25,000 more memory for less than money. Crazy.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Must mean the High end games...Im 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.
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