This is cute ;-)

[nbodley at speakeasy.net (Nicholas Bodley)]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:54:43 -0400, James R. Van Zandt <jrvz at comcast.net>  
wrote:

>  Are there actually enough boxes being sold with Linux installed that  
> they felt compelled to write this?

They seem to be de-emphasized, in my limited experience, but they  
apparently do sell; they' seem not to be costly, in part because the OS  
cost* is minimal. Monstrous (and only-huge) retailers such as Wal-Mart  
apparently have them in stock.
*A while back, I browsed the Linspire site, and the section called  
Partners (iirc) listed their terms (iirc, $500 flat, then, for an  
unlimited number of machines). As well, it did mention quite a few machine  
brand names.

As to the question, I don't know, but I couldn't resist a Wintergreen box  
 from TigerDirect, a while ago; came with Linspire. (For personal, not  
technical reasons, I haven't yet put it into service, sad to say.)  
Currently, have Libranet 3.0 with root access all but cut off; my Big  
Goof...

Regards,

-- 
Nicholas Bodley  /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
who did a BitTorrent for Ubuntu 6.06 --
Interesting and promising; unlike many
distros, it doesn't set up a driver for the
old Matrox Mystique. Nautilus has improved.