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They were sold out, of course, but what I saw that interested me was
that there were two desktop systems for sale running Linux.  That's two
more than I've seen elsewhere.  One was on sale for $179 and seemed like
a great deal.  Athlon 2000+ with 40 Gig drive, but only 128MB of RAM.
The other was $379 I think, with a faster processor (some AMD chip I
haven't heard of), but otherwise about the same.

 

I figure those machines must be fully Linux compatible, so they are
prime candidates for loading a real Linux distribution onto.  I say
"real" because they were both running Linspire.  

 

Actually, only one of them was running Linspire-the other one was
_trying_ to run Linspire and failing.  It looked to me like someone had
type "rm -f /boot/grub/*" or something equivalent into a shell.  Since
Linspire logs you in as root, it worked.  What a clever solution
Linspire picked to the problem of allowing "one click installs".  Heh
heh.

 

Michael

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