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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

Posted by kdawson on from the ok-there's-a-market-for-it dept.

hankmt writes "About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores). And the product sales page at wal-mart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old Linux users alike."

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  1. good news, but.. by pak9rabid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    this is great news indeed....lets just hope we don't see an equal number of returns/exchanges in a month or two..

  2. Just buy it from a mom n pop shop by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There is a little mom n pop shop in Berkeley called Zareason that is selling these things, too.. So you can get the gPC there guilt free. Heh.

    http://www.zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16160&cat=0&page=1

    So you can buy it there with a clean conscience. heh.

    BTW, I have no business relation with the family that runs Zareason, but I did buy about $8,400.00 worth of products from them, and Zareason did a fine job of shipping the products to the public middle school that I ordered on behalf of. More details on that purchase here:

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/1446254

  3. If Wal-mart doesn't have them in stock... by christian.einfeldt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Try buying it from this mom and pop shop:

    http://www.zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16160&cat=0&page=1

    BTW, I have no business relation with the family that runs Zareason, but I did buy about $8,400.00 worth of products from them, and Zareason did a fine job of shipping the products to the public middle school that I ordered on behalf of. More details on that purchase here:

    http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/1446254