Yes, they are both owned by the Walton family. However, the difference is that all the news reports I had heard previously was that PCs with Lindows on them were only being sold at the www.walmart.com site. Selling PCs at retail outlets with Linux CDs is a new twist.
John Hebert --- Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warning......strictly my assumptions > follow.......Warning > > I think Sams and Wal-Mart are owned by the same > company so it may be the > case that the barebones Sam's PC's are the same or > have the same components > as the Linux computers and no OS computers being > sold at Wal-Mart. > > Cleve > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 1:17 PM > Subject: [brlug-general] barebones PCs with Linux > CDs being sold at Sam's? > > > > A work colleague called me last Saturday from a > Sam's > > here in Baton Rouge to report that there were bare > > bones PCs (no CPU or hard drive) on the shelves > that > > included some distribution of Linux (I think > Lycoris) > > on CD. > > > > If anybody goes by a Sam's in the near future, > could > > you take a look in their PC section and get more > > details? > > > > Thanks, > > John Hebert > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > > http://autos.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com
