RE: Coming soon


Subject: RE: Coming soon
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 14:19:34 AKDT


It did in fact have Lindows installed, however, I was not impressed at
all...it did use the apt tool and now I am working to get that on my RedHat
machine.

Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: civileme [mailto:civileme@mandrakesoft.com]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 11:59 AM
To: Mike Barsalou; 'aklug@aklug.org'
Subject: Re: Coming soon

On Friday 02 August 2002 08:37 am, Mike Barsalou wrote:
> I just recently bought one of those Walmart.com computers....most of you
> are probably saying..."Why in the heck did Mike do that?" It's a good
> question, in fact, my wife even asked that question! :)
>
> I bought it to see what experience any person who bought one of these
> things was going to have. Additionally, I wanted to prove that a family
> could in fact buy a machine, put Linux on it, and use it at home as their
> regular computer. I have now put my money where my mouth has been for
> these few years.
>
> So I am putting together an email talking about the different problems and
> successes I ran into.
>
> It has been great fun!
>
> Mike
>
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You did not buy it with Lindows or Mandrake preinstalled?

Civileme

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