[luau] Mandrake to be in WalMart PCs
W. Wayne Liauh
LiauhW001 at Hawaii.rr.com
Wed Jun 19 07:53:01 PDT 2002
The most important consequence from the WalMart move is underscored by the following "prediction":
With Walmart.com taking the first leap, it's possible that other stores will follow in selling bare systems
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/29/0218241&tid=7 <http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/29/0218241&tid=7>> and those with Linux preloaded.
Nowadays, barebones account for more than 57% of all the PCs sold in the U.S.
It will not take a geinus to figure out what the potential impact may be.
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