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Re: What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes???

  • Subject: Re: What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes???
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ John Bailo ] on Tuesday 16 May 2006 09:02 \__

> Sinister Midget wrote:
> 
>> On 2006-05-16, Bill <elm8755@xxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>>>
>>> I got curious today about the computers I had heard Walmart was selling
>>> with either Linux installed or no O.S.  So I searched the web including
>>> Walmart's site and could find nothing to indicate this is happening now.
>>>   Only articles from 2002 through 2004 talked about this phenomenon.
>>> All Walmart's computers I can find today come loaded with Windows XP.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what has happened here? :-((((
>> 
>> You're right. They're all gone!
>> 
>> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762908
>> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762912
>> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762910
>> 
>> They aren't selling one with no OS either.
>> 
>> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=2642763
>> 
> 
> They aren't selling the HoMedics Deluxe Antigravity Programmable Massage
> Chair either:
> 
>
http://www.walmart.com/massage-spa/massagers/homedics-deluxe-antigravity-massage-chair

And yes, if you look closely, you will see them flying 'round the peripherals
of the Walmart complex. The legends speak of some giant Gorilla that has
come into existence when Xandros and Lispire first made it into the shop.

Roy

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