<OT> Linux now avaible in stores

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003, Ken Moffat wrote:
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>I believe Walmart has linux computers, but it's on-line only.

That's true, and with SuSE 8.2 for just under $300.00US.  They have a
couple of faster models for up to $500.00, all of which ship with 128MB of
RAM.  I would suggest adding RAM to go > 512MB if one plans on using
Openoffice.org as it's a memory hog.

I have some minor nits to pick with the packaging on these boxen, primarily
that they should load pam_ldap and nss_ldap by default so we could plug
then into the network with no software changes.  It would be nice if they
had the CD images copied to the hard drive to make it easy for the unwashed
to add packages without flipping CDs.

As it is, we just change the software installation source in yast2 to point
to the main NFS server where we keep the SuSE install images, install our
OpenPKG stuff, and they're ready to go as workstations on the LAN in about
five minutes.  Our primary changes are to set up LDAP authentication, the
amd automounter, and map all /home directories using amd.

Bill
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