{"id":1645,"date":"2008-03-03T09:08:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T09:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/03\/best-buy-will-sell-linux-compu\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:08:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T09:08:46","slug":"best-buy-will-sell-linux-compu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/best-buy-will-sell-linux-compu\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy will Sell Linux Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Asus Eee Laptops being sold by Best Buy come featured with an Intel Celeron M Processor, 512 MB of DDR2 memory, 7&#8243; widescreen display, 4GB solid state drive, built-in webcam, and the Linux operating system. Weighing in at only 2lbs, the laptop is great for day-to-day traveling. The hardware might not seem much, if you&#8217;re used to the high demands of a Windows-based PC, but for Linux, 512 MB of memory and a 4GB hard drive is plenty. You won&#8217;t be using the laptop for much server-based work or playing any 3D accelerated games, but that&#8217;s not what the laptop is about. It&#8217;s about having e-mail, internet, chat, word processors, and other applications that you need day-to-day while traveling, or working out of an office, or while on a trip.<a href=\"http:\/\/linuxhow2.com\/News\/Best_Buy_Sells_Linux.html\">[Source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asus Eee Laptops being sold by Best Buy come featured with an Intel Celeron M Processor, 512 MB of DDR2 memory, 7&#8243; widescreen display, 4GB solid state drive, built-in webcam, and the Linux operating system. Weighing in at only 2lbs, the laptop is great for day-to-day traveling. The hardware might not seem much, if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/best-buy-will-sell-linux-compu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Buy will Sell Linux Computers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,130,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-qx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}