Jophiel wrote:
Singdall wrote:
yup, shame their are none in my area id drive to get that for my daughter to haver her own computer.
well the one walmart online order site i saw stated not sold online or out of stock.
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You can order it online and have it shipped to your local Walmart for free for you to pick up.
well the one walmart online order site i saw stated not sold online or out of stock.
Leonai_art wrote:
Is it just me or does GOS look far too similar to MacOSx?
http://www.thinkgos.com/images/screen_shot.jpg
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/desktop_hero20071016.png
http://www.thinkgos.com/images/screen_shot.jpg
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/desktop_hero20071016.png
looks a bit like gnome with crystal theme to me.
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
sweetumssama wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
Strangely enough, people who buy $200 PCs from Walmart don't have access to ebay until they've bought the $200 PC.
Yodabunny wrote:
sweetumssama wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
Strangely enough, people who buy $200 PCs from Walmart don't have access to ebay until they've bought the $200 PC.
sweetumssama wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
Oh, it's certainly a good idea, that PC will do anything the average hotmail user will want to do. I just think they should have picked an established linux distribution instead of this gOS thing that no-one knows about. Hopefully I'm wrong about it, I have my doubts.
It's Linux; there's no such thing as a proprietary version.
Love,
PunkFloyd
PunkFloyd
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
Quote:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/desktop_hero20071016.png
I like that look.
Edited, Nov 1st 2007 1:30pm by Daboder
Daboder da Basher wrote:
Quote:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/desktop_hero20071016.png
I like that look.
Edited, Nov 1st 2007 1:30pm by Daboder
That's the new "Leopard" version of their OS
Yodabunny wrote:
sweetumssama wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
Strangely enough, people who buy $200 PCs from Walmart don't have access to ebay until they've bought the $200 PC.
Strangely enough, people buying $200PC from walmart as their first computer most likely won't know how to use the damn thing, especially since it comes with a walmartified OS.
sweetumssama wrote:
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
no it is anything that is GNU/GPL.
as for walmart wanting their own flavor of linux, they were the first to support Linspire now known as Freespire and sold Linspire computers for years.
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
Yodabunny wrote:
sweetumssama wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
If you want a $200 PC, go to ebay, not walmart. FFS.
Strangely enough, people who buy $200 PCs from Walmart don't have access to ebay until they've bought the $200 PC.
Strangely enough, people buying $200PC from walmart as their first computer most likely won't know how to use the damn thing, especially since it comes with a walmartified OS.
nah, this is marketed at the lower income and grandma type peeps. they know enough to get online, use the internet browser and check e-mail, and maybe a little bit of word processing too.
Walmart for years has offered Linux based computers that sell in the $400 - $600 range as well as windows computers with the same specs selling for $500 - $1000 range.
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
Strangely enough, people buying $200PC from walmart as their first computer most likely won't know how to use the damn thing, especially since it comes with a walmartified OS.
Anyway, as long as the GUI is well-designed (so far it looks pretty good) and they don't have to go through the normal hoopla of installing Linux, it's probably not that difficult to figure out, considering almost everyone has used a computer in these times.
Singdall wrote:
Walmart for years has offered Linux based computers that sell in the $400 - $600 range as well as windows computers with the same specs selling for $500 - $1000 range.
2 words:
Compaq
Emachines
Walmart PCs are crap, aimed purely at connecting the ghetto to the rest of the world.
You know, I find nothing wrong with Walmart computers for simple every day use. My laptop is a WalMart computer. It's nothing spectacular, but anything I really need extra power with I just use my PC upstairs. Plus, I don't care as much if this thing gets destroyed by the boys.
Same can be said for a $200 PC for them. I'd much rather get some cheap PoS for them than build a computer with higher performance. Of course, we've done several upgrades over the past 3 yrs, so have old boards and stuff, so we're just going to use that to build a PC. We'd format and install Windows on the $200 machine anyways.
Same can be said for a $200 PC for them. I'd much rather get some cheap PoS for them than build a computer with higher performance. Of course, we've done several upgrades over the past 3 yrs, so have old boards and stuff, so we're just going to use that to build a PC. We'd format and install Windows on the $200 machine anyways.
sweetumssama wrote:
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
It applies to the kernel as well as all of the GNU tools that provide core system support. These tools include most of the build utilities, C runtime, library management, shells, boot loading, etc. Important stuff.
Notwithstanding GNU utilities, the fact that the Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL, they *must* provide the full source code (not necessarily for free) which, by definition, prevents it from being proprietary. This is one of the key reasons why Linux is where it is today.
Love,
PunkFloyd
PunkFloyd
Singdall wrote:
well the one walmart online order site i saw stated not sold online or out of stock.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
Walmart PCs are crap, aimed purely at connecting the ghetto to the rest of the world.
Yes, and the person that can now check their email and learn about ebay for $200 instead of $500 cares about this why?
Singdall wrote:
sweetumssama wrote:
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
no it is anything that is GNU/GPL.
as for walmart wanting their own flavor of linux, they were the first to support Linspire now known as Freespire and sold Linspire computers for years.
Edited, Nov 1st 2007 1:45pm by sweetumssama
Jophiel wrote:
Singdall wrote:
well the one walmart online order site i saw stated not sold online or out of stock.
ahh thanks. ill talk with wife about it and probably end up being my daughters Christmas gift.
Nagah wrote:
Same can be said for a $200 PC for them. I'd much rather get some cheap PoS for them than build a computer with higher performance.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Yodabunny wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
Walmart PCs are crap, aimed purely at connecting the ghetto to the rest of the world.
Yes, and the person that can now check their email and learn about ebay for $200 instead of $500 cares about this why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BVyu7Xvi4
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
sweetumssama wrote:
PunkFloyd the Flatulent wrote:
It applies to the kernel as well as all of the GNU tools that provide core system support. These tools include most of the build utilities, C runtime, library management, shells, boot loading, etc. Important stuff.
Notwithstanding GNU utilities, the fact that the Linux kernel is licensed under the GPL, they *must* provide the full source code (not necessarily for free) which, by definition, prevents it from being proprietary. This is one of the key reasons why Linux is where it is today.
you can not be charged for the code or the source. you can however be charged for a service. a service can be a download as they are providing you with their bandwidth, but it must be 100% FREE for the source code and use of any part of it.
so you can be charged for a DVD, CD, download, etc... just not the software/code it self.
If i were to install Linux on your computer i can charge you for my time and my service, but i can not charge you for the OS. i can however charge you for the CD/DVD that OS is being installed from.
Yodabunny wrote:
StubsOnAsura the Shady wrote:
Walmart PCs are crap, aimed purely at connecting the ghetto to the rest of the world.
Yes, and the person that can now check their email and learn about ebay for $200 instead of $500 cares about this why?
It bothers Stubs on an asthetic level.
Turin wrote:
Seriously, what the f*ck nature?
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