Now this is one PC deal that is almost too hard to pass up!

[MC Hammered]

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...106562%3A96356

[Dean]

whats LindowsOS?

a form of Linux or whatever its called?

[Rytalin]

hahah
amazing how cheap computers can get when you build em cheap and don't ship em with Windows, eh?

[shorerider]

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...&xsell=2293918

I want this mouse!

[rawb]

id choose even windows 3.1 over lindows.

[Tux]

walmart has been selling these cheap comps for a while now, they included lindows cause its less than half the price of windows. Lindows in supposed to be a more "user friendly" linux distro, and includes an integrated windows compatibility layer allowing it to run most windows apps as well as linux apps. it also includes things like staroffice7, etc.

yea i would never use lindows myself, there are cheaper (& free) linux distros out there that can do much more than this one can, but at least it introduces people to linux that wouldn't use it otherwise.

[sNyx]

what the hell is a Duron?

plus funny how the side ad is for a $99.00 speaker setup

[MC Hammered]

Originally posted by Attila


mYles doesn't know what a AMD Duron is?

I think he thinks it is a brand of condom myself.

[rawb]

i built a nice amd duron 1.8 server with case, mb, hd's and the like for $350.

super rad.

[shorerider]

I might have to go to walmart to investigate this Lindows business

[sNyx]

hey now, im running a Celeron 550.. im not a hardware kidd.

[ebbomega]

Lindows hardly makes the comp cheaper. Methinks it costs about $100 for it, giving it a beefy $50 less than the Microsoft alternative.

Wonder when people are going to start packing Linux from some actually community-based project or something with commercial computers.

And yeah. Lindows is so limiting and filled with so much Windows-attempted-to-act-just-likeness that you might as well just get Windows. Although some of the stuff that I personally like about Linux are fairly simplistic (bash, Gnome, and freely available programs, IE not evaluation or shareware-based) all the stuff they use to make Lindows more Windowslike you might as well just get seperately for the price you pay (IE just bloody learn to configure Gnome or KDE to look like it, and hey, you might find some actually useful desktop features along the way, as well as WineX and CrossOver are really quite cheap).

I'm still happy with my Red Hat Box. It does everything I want it to except right now talk to the interweb as I'm stuck at parents' place and they have a @#$% Win98 box on the internet line.

[Tux]

Originally posted by Attila

Otherwise, windows all the way for desktops

i disagree.

[Tux]

linux works perfectly well as desktop systems, i've been using it for years on both my laptop and desktop systems, and it's getting better still, with the 2.6 kernel on the way and more mainstream applications being released on linux (not to mention the tons of alternative apps equivilent to their microsoft counterparts) and with companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, RedHat, and Novell starting to promote it into the desktop market, i'd say it's just as ready for the desktop as windows is. There are many distros out there aimed at regular computer users that emphasize user-friendliness as well.

[Craive]

WOW sweeeet deal.. I might pick one up! Damn, i need a linux server.. and this looks hella promising!!!

[shorerider]

Red hat:

[falkofire]

all i hafta say is I work phone support for computers, and the walmart special is one of the things we support.....and its really tru taht, "you get what you pay for"

[Leviathan]

the only problem with linux for the average user is that there are so many different distrobutions available