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Trying to locate Linux muscle for your computer at home (Oakland Tribune)

[Posted June 7, 2004 by ris]

The Oakland Tribune takes a quick look at some places to buy a home PC with Linux installed. "Linux computers are often grouped in the Business or Workstations area of manufacturer Web sites. Even if a company does not offer Linux installed on its hardware, many will specify which models are capable of running the system, should you decide to install it yourself. Yet IBM, for instance, sells Linux on some of its high-end workstations."

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Posted Jun 7, 2004 17:41 UTC (Mon) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link]

Linux is popping up in stores like Wal-Mart, which sells Microtel PCs that use the Linux-based Java Desktop System and cost $398.
If I were a casual user reading this, I'd maybe think "Cool! I'll go down to Wal-Mart and pickup one of these Linux Computers up". Unless things have changed, one can only get the Linus boxes through walmart.com.

It's nice to see mainstream press pick up on Linux at this level, but it'd be nicer if they pointed you to where you actually buy one.

Try Fry's Electronics

Posted Jun 7, 2004 19:27 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

One place you can "actually buy one" is Fry's Electronics. They don't
preload much of what they sell with Linux, but they do at least one, a low
end $300-ish (US) unit sans monitor, running "Thiz Linux". I haven't
bought one, but I've been thinking about it. I found Thiz Linux listed on
LWN's Linux Distributions list, and visited their site. They are out of
Taiwan and offer the desktop version installed on the Fry's units, plus a
server and an office version, in both Chinese and English. IIRC, they
also had some sort of Office suite available as well. It's not as
gimmicky as I thought at first, as it seems to be reasonably popular in
its own area, at least, tho the Fry's units were the first I'd seen of it
here in the US.

Duncan