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by Ben Crowell, lightandmatter.com

It was time to buy my daughter a cheap Linux system to be used for schoolwork and playing flash games — well, mostly for playing flash games. In the past, I’ve bought the $200 Great Quality boxes at Fry’s, and they’ve proved very reliable, but the salesman at Fry’s told me that they were no longer carrying them, so in search of my cheap Linux fix, I decided to buy the new Everex TC2502 Green gPC being sold at WalMart. Er, supposedly being sold at WalMart. WalMart has sold Linux PCs in the past, but what was supposed to be different about this one was that it was going to be available on the shelf in stores, not just by mail order. However, a bit of searching in the WalMart web site showed that the machine wasn’t really in stock at any of the stores that were listed as having it. What was in stock was the GC3500, a $300 model that comes with Windows Vista preinstalled. (Since then, Everex has lined up a bunch of other distributors; since I’m not a big fan of WalMart, I’d probably use one of them if I was doing this over.) I ended up ordering the $200 machine I wanted via WalMart’s “Site to Store” service, where they ship it to the local store (at no extra charge), and send you an email when it’s arrived so you can come and pick it up. The price was $199, plus tax. A monitor and wifi card basically doubled the price.

The default gOS desktop.

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Slashdot - Firehose
Debian win32-loader goes official
Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13, @03:39AM

An anonymous reader writes “After a long process of review and polishing, the win32 loader from http://goodbye-microsoft.com has finally made its way to official Debian CDs. Latest daily builds of lenny (the development version) are including it, making the start of Debian Installer as simple as just a few clicks. The win32-loader version, now based on GRUB 2, includes new features such as detection and preseeding of Windows settings, and is translated to 20 languages.”
http://goodbye-microsoft.com

Clearing up the Novell ClearType controversy

I have noticed that several people have been looking for the “Geek Inside wallpaper” that I posted on my old site several years ago. It seems that I’m not the only one that likes it.

It’s not my creation and I do not claim any ownership of it. However, I can’t find the source.

1/19/2008 Update: I have uploaded to image to two different file sharing sites. These are the links to them.

http://rapidshare.de/files/38350672/Geek-Inside-1280.jpg.html

http://www.sharebigfile.com/en/file/4647/Geek-Inside-1280-jpg.html

1/18/2008 Update: Well it appears that several people have become very interested in this wallpaper. It was downloaded over 27,000 times in the last three days. My ISP just alerted me that I am about to hit my bandwidth limit for the month. In a normal month I average around 100MB of daily bandwidth usage. In the last three days it’s been around 5GB daily and 99.9% of it was this wallpaper. So, unfortunately I had to remove it. I am sorry.