From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 23:16:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6C9B37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from outlander.us (35-3-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.3.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F4543EB2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@outlander.us) Subject: RE: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:15:59 -0900 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box? Thread-Index: AcKdnjxaQG0ukvprRyaxucp5N0RIYQAIlXCg From: "Mark-Nathaniel Weisman" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes Rick, Wal-Mart uses a modified version of Lindows for their internal operations, but does not offer it for sale to their customers. It was supposed to go public with sales Q4 of 2002, however as of yet no go. His Faithful Servant, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com]=20 Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:14 PM Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD work on Walmart's $199 Microtel box? > > A quick web search didn't bring up any answer to this. > > Does anyone here have the definitive word? >=20 > The most recent machinine I saw was running what seemed a fairly stock > Debian. So I'd expect you'd have little trouble up to console use; X=20 > may be compounded by the use of some highly integrated chipset. I recall seeing an article where Walmart was loading Lindows on their machines... is that still happening?=20 Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message