Thanks to Don Altman for this:
Wal-Mart won't do just Windows anymore. The world's largest
retailer is now selling, via its Web site, low-cost PCs loaded
with a version of Linux that runs Windows apps. The deal, with
startup Lindows.com Inc., is a break from Microsoft's lock on
home-PC operating systems.
Wal-Mart.com is advertising PCs from white-box computer maker
Microtel Computer Systems loaded with LindowsOS, which has the
open-source advantages of Linux: Its code is modifiable by users.
It also runs Windows apps without the performance degradation
experienced while using other types of emulation software,
Lindows founder Michael Robertson says.
Wal-Mart is selling Lindows PCs with an 850-MHz Advanced Micro
Devices Inc. CPU, 128 Mbytes of RAM, and a 10-Gbyte hard disk for
$299. It also sells Microtel systems loaded with Windows. Since
February, Wal-Mart.com has sold Microtel PCs without operating
systems. A Microsoft spokesman couldn't be reached for comment.
- Aaron Ricadela
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