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A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC

Posted by kdawson on from the green-around-the-edges dept.

bcrowell writes "Wal-Mart's new $200 Linux PC has generated a lot of buzz in geek circles. Although they're sold out of stores, I bought one for my daughter via mail order, and have written up a review of the system. The hardware seems fine for anyone but a hardcore gamer, but the pre-installed gOS flavor of Ubuntu has a lot of rough edges."

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  1. Oh wow, was this intentional? by Erris · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Those other reviews are much nicer than this one. An article that does not work well with Konqueror is always a bad sign (Use Bluefish).

    Another bad sign I noticed right away was that the dock's icons have been rearranged so that YouTube's icon and it's neighbor's spell out "F You", compared to normal. It's hard to say if this was intentional or not, because this one has that too. What an odd choice of screenshots to have as the one and only.

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