OTA and Linux

[John Macdonald]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:04:04AM -0400, Meng Cheah wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> 
> >Or perhaps they realize there's a market for computers loaded with
> >Linux.  There's a store on Dufferin, near Yorkdale that sells only Linux
> >systems.  
> >
> What's the name of the store?
> I'd like to drop by one of these days to check it out.

Their web sites are www.sub300.com and www.sub500.com (named for
their original entry level desktop system in US and Canadian
dollars back when the exchange rate differential was higher
and when most places had much more expensive prices on their
entry level systems).

They list their address as 344 Marlee Ave. but warn "Sorry,
no walk-in clients" and I can confirm that - I dropped by their
store (before I left Toronto) in the middle of a business day,
and there was nobody there.  I suspect they have a day job and
that the store location is used for assembly, testing, shipping,
etc. and that they only go there when they have a batch of
systems to set up (but that is extrapolation - I might have hit
them on a late lunch or they might have not heard the buzzer).

They use the Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) distribution.

I got my laptop from Open Sense Solutions, but at the time they
could only ship to US addresses and needed manual assistance to
take a non-US credit card. They use the Ubuntu distribution.
As an extra feature, on their desktop systems they sell the
hardware and provide the software changes to support having
multiple sets of keyboard/mouse/monitor on the same processor so
you can share the computer amongst a number of people at once.

I haven't had any problem with my laptop so far (3 weeks) but I
haven't tested out the use of all the hardware components yet -
I don't have a wireless host to connect to here, and don't need
a modem connection, and haven't tried to burn a CD or DVD yet.

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