Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:15:59 -0900 From: "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" <mark@outlander.us> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box? Message-ID: <B030C8F9120CCD43A1FC642851FB9FB404598F@mavrick.outland>
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Yes Rick, Wal-Mart uses a modified version of Lindows for their internal operations, but does not offer it for sale to their customers. It was supposed to go public with sales Q4 of 2002, however as of yet no go. His Faithful Servant, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com]=20 Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:14 PM Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box? > > A quick web search didn't bring up any answer to this. > > Does anyone here have the definitive word? >=20 > The most recent machinine I saw was running what seemed a fairly stock > Debian. So I'd expect you'd have little trouble up to console use; X=20 > may be compounded by the use of some highly integrated chipset. I recall seeing an article where Walmart was loading Lindows on their machines... is that still happening?=20 Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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