Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend?

eldavojohn writes "With $200 machines being all the rage these days, it's surprising that more coverage hasn't been given to Shuttle's KPC which is an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB HDD. With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?"

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Is The Summary Question Serious?

[GaryPatterson]

With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?

So... will people who want to spend as little as possible go for a cheap PC with a free OS, free Office package and lots of other free software..?

Well, that's a poser isn't it?

Re:A potential buisness model problem...

[east coast]

Get your head out from under that rock! (or is it... Mom's basement?)

Wow, you're so cool.

So you want me to buy hardware and put Linux and VMWare on it just to buy a licensed copy of Windows so that I can run cross platform software why?

It's nice that you can insult me with no real cause but I really don't see the point of being such an ass when the reason not to do this is so obvious.

It's great that if you're not bowing to Linus that you have to get shit on by the Linux community just trying to have a straight forward conversation with them. Further proof for me that the Linux community is filled with snobs who have no real desire to do what it takes to make Linux into a first class desktop OS instead of just cawing on about GIMP and OpenOffice.

What an asshole.