Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled

Jeff Claunch jclaunch at nccsun2.ncc.ag.gov
Wed Jun 19 17:35:31 CDT 2002


The biggest perk is probably KDE3.0 is included in RH7.3.  Not much else
worth mentioning (IMHO), except for the newest kernel.....

jc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tia Haenni" <thaenni at kc.rr.com>
To: "KC LUG" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled

> That's good to know, but what are the perks of doing the upgrade? I am
trying to decide if it's worth it.
>
> On 6/19/2002 11:27 AM, Jeff Claunch <jclaunch at nccsun2.ncc.ag.gov> wrote:
> >I've done the RH7.2 to RH7.3 upgrade....and it does seem to work as
> >advertised.
> >
> >should be pretty painless.
> >
> >jc
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Gene Dascher" <gedascher at multiservice.com>
> >To: "KC LUG" <kclug at kclug.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:57 AM
> >Subject: RE: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
> >
> >
> >> When you boot off of the new distro CD to install, it should ask
> >you if
> >you
> >> want to Install or Upgrage.  Choose Upgrade, and it should update
> >the
> >> existing packages.  Mind you I said SHOULD :)
> >>
> >> Gene
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> >> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Tia Haenni
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:51 AM
> >> > To: KC LUG
> >> > Subject: Re: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > so, if I did "upgrade", how does this work, does the new dist
> >of
> >> > RH detect a previous version or is it a matter of manually
> >> > replacing packages? Yes, I have no clue.
> >> >
> >> > Tia
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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