In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sinister Midget had the audacity to say that:
> On 2007-12-25, Rockinghorse Winner <rockinghorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>
>> A few years ago, Fry's Electronics used to offer el cheapo pc's with
>> Linspire pre-installed. I haven't seen them advertise any for quite a while
>> now. Does anyone know why they discontinued their Linux offerings?
>
> No *knowledge* of why they'd discontinue it. But my *opinion* is that
> Linspire is such a dud that the meachines probably weren't selling very
> well.
>
> Every machine that I've seen sold with only Linspire as an option has
> been low-end hardware with very limited capability. Anybody buying any
> of the machines I've seen advertised would assume linux was amateurish
> because the graphics capability was, the gaming capability was
> terrible, any audio or video processing stank, etc. Sure they'd be good
> for checking email and writing letters. Not a lot more than that,
> though.
>
> I knew a guy who bought one and it was total garbage, I don't recall
> which machine it was, but I remember it was advertised by Linspire as a
> good low-cost machine. It may have been the one Walmart was selling
> online for $200 a few years ago.
>
Yea, thanks for the info. The Fry's machines were also in that range, and
as you describe. Nevertheless, with only a few large mfgr's of computer
components, chances are the components in these puters are pretty similar
quality to those in Dells and Hp's. I extra stick of memory and a GPU would
go a long way to making those machines respectable.
Back then, when I wan't interested in Linux, I'd assumed those OS's were
inferior Windows replacements. There was no press for linux like there is
today. Ubuntu has helped a lot.
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