[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux at Fry's

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Mar 15 11:58:03 CST 2002


Ken Frazer wrote:

> Did anyone else notice the ad for the "Internet Ready Multimedia PC' 
> on the front page of today's (Friday) Fry's ad?  It comes with "Linux 
> 1.3 shell with web browsing, e-mail, and word processing 
> capabilities."  It is also "upgradeable to Windows XP."
>
> Does anybody know what is really installed on this thing?  At least 
> it's nice that they are selling a machine that is pre-configured with 
> Linux. 

Guessing Caldera OpenLinux.... but it's just a guess.  If so, that's a 
pretty old version of Caldera.
Anyone know who else has a 1.3 version number??






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