| PluggedIn: A $199 PC with no Windows, no Intel inside [Reuters] |
Dec. 04, 2002
As Wal-Mart heads into its first holiday season offering $199 PCs with Linux pre-installed, it says sales are already exceeding expectations, according to Reuters. Although the retailer wouldn't release figures, sources said WalMart.com is moving thousands of units per month. Peter Henderson reports . . .
"Freedom -- from Microsoft -- is a chief reason that consumers would buy a Linux-based machine, said Jason Spisak, marketing director of Lycoris, a nine-person start-up and one of two companies supplying Wal-Mart with an operating system for the $199 machines. The other, also Linux-based, is Lindows . . . "
"Spisak says his Desktop/LX software is modeled to look like Windows XP. "We've basically taken this as far as you can go without being prosecuted," he said . . . "
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