[Sussex] Argos Catalogue surprise

[David Morris]

Gavin Stevens wrote:
> I was idly leafing through the new Argos catalogue & came across the
> page for printers & suchlike.
>
> To my great surprise, the Samsung laser printer (£79.99) said "OS
> compatibility: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, various Linux OS including Red
> Hat, Caldera, Debian, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE & TurboLinux".
>
> Check it out on page 1049.
>   

I noticed this last night myself, you've beaten me to it :)
> This is the first time I have ever seen a reference to Linux in such a
> mass-market publication - OK, some of the names are bit out of date now
> & it's the only product to make the reference, but one is better than
> none.
>
> Maybe, slowly, they are beginning to wake up to the power of the
> "Penguin Pound".
>
> Gavin.
>
> __ 
> Sussex mailing list
> Sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> E-mail Address: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sussex LUG Website: http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex
>
>