[TriLUG] PC's with RedHat available online!

[Jim Ray]

That's cheaper than my parts cost for a low end system.  Wow.  Very
tempting.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sinner from the Prairy [mailto:sinner at escomposlinux.org]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:22 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] PC's with RedHat available online!
> 
> Good Morning,
> 
> I've just found this article:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1040-983525.html
> 
> "Sam's Club, the members-only branch of retail giant Wal-Mart, has
entered
> the
> budget PC race with a $299 system running Red Hat's version of the
Linux
> operating system."
> 
> " The $299 "starter system" sold by Sam's Club runs on a 1.1GHz Duron
> processor from Advanced Micro Devices and includes a 20GB hard drive,
> built-in Ethernet and modem, and an integrated graphics processor. The
> current version has 128MB of memory, but CPUBuilders plans to upgrade
the
> configuration soon to 256MB. A 17-inch monitor is available for
another
> $100."
> 
> See the PCs gere:
> http://www.samsclub.com/ -> Computers & Software -> Desktops
> 
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
> --
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