Wal-Mart sells this Everex gPC for $198. It's bundled with speakers, a mouse, and a keyboard, and it comes with 24-hour tech support. The operating system is called gOS, a version of Ubuntu 7.10. Despite the fact that many mainstream consumers have likely never even heard of Ubuntu, Wal-Mart is having trouble keeping the gPC in stock.
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- Posted by: Boot_Agnostic Posted on: 03/12/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
 Ubuntu on newer computers! Stumpie | 01/25/08 |
| RE: (Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs) wsickenberger@... | 01/25/08 |
| Non-geek ifooh | 01/25/08 |
 Hammers CodeCurmudgeon | 01/25/08 |
| Shill TakeIT2 | 01/25/08 |
 RE: Non-geek Spiffdifilous | 02/05/08 |
| Can you call this piece dull? TakeIT2 | 01/25/08 |
| <US$200 Dull?> billfranke@... | 01/25/08 |
| I like it, I like it, I like it. blackjack861@... | 01/26/08 |
| but... that's the point of it isn't it? yid_witch@... | 01/26/08 |
| RE: (Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs) PoppaK | 01/26/08 |
| RE: (Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs) AKalafat@... | 01/26/08 |
| RE: (Photos: Three low-cost Linux PCs) pinevalleytrim@... | 01/28/08 |
| whatever mmpaca | 01/29/08 |
| AO-Yeller? agohige | 01/29/08 |
| A good Start... agohige | 01/29/08 |
| And where is the Walmart experiment now? Boot_Agnostic | 03/12/08 |
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