http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/ Engadget Comments for Wal-Mart sells out of the $200 Linux gPC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
"I tried to install... anything... and it wouldn't work"

Definitely going to be a bunch of returns. Unless they were all snatched up by some company trying to build a cluster.]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/I know it's hard to believe, especially for the type that would frequent a site like Engadget, but I personally know people at that skill level.]]>Nov 13th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 14th 2007 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
WTF?

Any explanations forthcoming?]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
I really don't see this as any real indication of the mainstream acceptance of Linux.]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 14th 2007 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
this is great news.

and why wouldn't it be? the average user browses the web and reads/writes email. and in just a few years, they'll use SaaS providers for all their application needs.

so why wouldn't ubuntu and firefox be all you could ever need?

think about what your parents really use their computers for. why should we have to subject them to microsoft pain, and why should we have to be their tech support when they can get something like this (for $200!) and have fewer issues than a windows based machine?

mom and dad, you're getting ubuntu for christmas!]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
You do know how to confirm only one comment do you not?]]>Nov 14th 2007 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
Has anyone else seen the photos of the gigantic box this thing comes in? It's like a OLPC green color kinda with huge text saying "gPC" did they play the GooglePC card on that one :)

Does this thing play nice with the Ubuntu LiveCD?!?!

How many gPC's have been sold so far?!?!]]>Nov 14th 2007 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
Happy to see Ubuntu, though.]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/not use the computer for anything more complicated than some
webbrowsing or emailing. For these people this is a perfect computer,
and by the time they will start doing more complicated things, they
will have figured out how to download open office instead of word 97.]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5673669
or you can just get the MB, CPU, and a 1GB stick of ram for 60$
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/]]>Nov 13th 2007 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Vixta Linux (http://vixta.sourceforge.net/) with support for those two things mention above can work.
if only linux would get there act together]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
Pinnacle and ulead can barely support their own stuff, let alone be considered a standard upon which something else is based. How many "everyday" users even know what either of those are? Joe user arguments are so 1999. Joe user will have an equally hard time with linux/osx/vista when placed in front of it for the first time.]]>Nov 13th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/I tried getting my sister on a Linux box but it was a no go, she uses her handy can to video tape her two kids soccer games, her kids water skiing, on the quads and everything her kids does, she then goes to her PC and place all her videos on DVD disk for her and her friends, and her friends do the very same. There are what you call a soccer mom. Those are the ppl whom you want to use Linux because they spend money, and there not loyal to any OS but want they can do on the OS.
Video editing is something everyone I know who had kids does, you must accept it and cater to them.
MS has created a nice UI for their OS look at win 3.11, Win98 and now Vista (it’s the UI! And functionality) and honestly it’s not the best but it works and everyone has their head around it, they also created complementary software not the very best but it works and most ppl are using it.
Linux will win the future if it not only creates an OS but a better UI and software to compliant it. Open office and Star office are a good start. You must compete with MS to get ppl to your system and you must offer them something they use.
P.S. Most ppl who run a small business depend on Outlook, I’ve tried weaning many off but they need outlook, they have a mobile phone that needs it too, because they depend on their mobiles
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This is Awesome news! Im not a huge linux user myself, but if I didn't have Mac OS X, I'd be using Linux instead. I really really hope that this is the start of the infiltration of Linux into the mainstream. Also, if people are happy with it, what do you think will happen when the "word of mouth" recommendations start?

Watch out Microsoft... Now you have 2 competing OS's gaining on ya!]]>Nov 13th 2007 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/
we need more of these

this type of computer should be everywhere

the family terminal that everyone can use everyday

I really want to how many have been sold so far :]]]>Nov 14th 2007 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Nov 13th 2007 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/Dec 6th 2007 10:19AM