Microcenter "Linux" Section
I had to opportunity yesterday to have a look at the Cambridge MicroCenter software selection. Of course I wasn’t expecting much, if anything. What I found was amusing and confusing at the same time.
Of course they had four full isles of software products and from what I could tell a lot of them were quite old. One side of one of the shelf actually advertised that it contained “Linux” and I went to have a look at what they had.
1x Box of TuxRacer for windows and Linux, unknown age, looked pretty old.
2x Box of Develop with Linux, publish date about 2001.
That’s it, no boxes of Ubuntu, SuSE, RedHat, Madriva or anything else. No other Linux software (although that concept is a little out of date so I wasn’t expecting much). It was kinda sad, like seeing a software graveyard where old software refused to die.
What have you seen at your local computer shop?
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Microcenter also has an interesting little shelf at the front with $2.99 CDs of things like Firefox and the GIMP.
“What have you seen at your local computer shop?”
I have seen computers with Ubuntu preinstaled (I would prefer to see Kubuntu, but ok) in my local computer shop. However, after vista 7 (nearly same kernel and only cosmetic changes compared to Vista) premiere, there are usually computers running only it. This is not surprising, because there was even vista 7 advertisement in the front of the shop. MS marketing everywhere.
A little indy shop near me has 2x boxed sets of Borland C++ on 5 1/4 inch floppies; $15 includes a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive.
The owner reports that he has some collector types as regular customers.
I’ve heard that the Cambridge Microcenter has some desktop machines for sale with pre-installed ubuntu.
I have not heard this myself, nor seen this. But perhaps it’s a recent change?