Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

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."

What's that in bogomips

[Ungrounded Lightning]

How many bogomips are we talking here...

Walmart + Linux = ...

[patio11]

... the Slashdot equivalent of strapping buttered toast to the back of a kitten and pushing it off a table. You could power a perpetual motion machine with the flames generated by this combo...

More /. Cognitive Dissonance

[goldspider]

Wal*Mart = Bad
Linux = Good

*whimper*

But,

[bedwards09]

Does it run Windows?

Must resist....

[Itninja]

...urge to support the Wal Mart beast. But Linux is good right? But wait...Wal Mart is not good. Unless, they throw me a open-source bone. Then they're good right? Damn, I hate moral dilemmas. Why can't everything Wal Mart sells, just be something I either do not want or do not need? It's almost as if they are pandering to....hey look! They have for $1.99/dozen!

Re:What's that in bogomips

[Josh Booth]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of $200 Wal-Mart PCs...

Oh, I guess someone did.

look out!

[pak9rabid]

if this isn't chair-throwing worthy, I don't know what is.

They forgot an important disclaimer!

[distantbody]

Unfortunately Wal-Mart have made a huge oversight, and they're gonna have quite a few disgruntled customers because of it. I mean, they forgot the "not good for pr0n" disclaimer!!!

blazingly fast ... Enlightenment WM

[localman]

Amazing what a decade of hardware progress can do :)

Re:Walmart + Linux = ...

[Duhavid]

I think you mean "perpetual emotion machine".

Re:Australia sucks

[Nazlfrag]

We also don't have Wal-Mart, so there's a bright side.

We are not clones of our average here.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

But Linux is good right? But wait...Wal Mart is not good. Unless, they throw me a open-source bone. Then they're good right?

The readership of Slashdot varies drastically. Attempts to use social pressure to homogenize it have failed, with great hilarity.

Apparently you did not get the memo. B-)

Please do not expect all of us to march in step.

Re:More /. Cognitive Dissonance

[renegadesx]

No this is Walmart which obviously means they were assembled by legal chinese citizins working on an annual salary of $2.50, so I would be testing the case for GHB if I got one

Re:Based upon the comments there ... none.

[SnoopJeDi]

man?

Re:What's that in bogomips

[renegadesx]

You should know the answer is 42!

Ha!

[Comatose51]

I knew it! I knew Linux is going to sell out some day! I told you Linux is just as evil M$FT! Sold out to Walmart of all people.

*RTFA*

Oh. Good job, carry on.

Hah! I can image the tech support calls now

[Scoldog]

Customer - "Hi, I have a problem with my computer, it won't boot"

Walmart - "What operating system do you have installed"

Customer - "Windows Vista"

Walmart - "I'm sorry, that PC shipped with Linux. You'll have to reinstall that before we can help you!".

Next thing you know, they'll blame faulty hinges on Windows!

Re:How many will be returned?

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

It's funny how this is modded down as a troll but I'm expected that there really will be a lot of disappointed customers. Some may successfully adapt anyway, but a large proportion won't.

Re:Not to troll, but what do they expect for retur

[oatworm]

Right after someone invents the mod "-1, can't spell douche"

Thank you, thank you - I'm here every night. Be sure to tip your cocktail waitress.

But I'm confused.

[onefriedrice]

Wait... does this mean that we like Walmart now?

Just wondering...

Re:But I'm confused.

[aichpvee]

No, it certainly does not. Now maybe if they were shipping Slackware or something...

Re:But I'm confused.

[hdparm]

Heh. Top that with Enlightenment (which is actually shipped on these) and you get easy distro for typical Wal-Mart buyer.

Then, for the next shipment, you cut down on setup costs and provide the machine with Gentoo minimal CD bundled.

?

Profit!

Re:Not to troll, but what do they expect for retur

[rucs_hack]

How many AOL users even know what an OS is ??

They know exactly what an OS is, it's the blue window that tells them they've got mail, duh..

Re:Based upon the comments there ... none.

[Aehgts]

$ apropos man|wc -l
255
$ apropos woman
woman: nothing appropriate.

Re:Not to troll, but what do they expect for retur

[rts008]

That would be a little like a Mazda RX7 having a warning that this is not a Dump Truck.

There, fixed that for you.

Re:Not to troll, but what do they expect for retur

[Anonymous Coward]

>Those are the kind of fucktard who need to be removed from the gene pool as they are too fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a computer.

Funny, I feel the same way about people that use neologisms such as "fucktard".

Re:What's that in bogomips

[nschubach]

You didn't know that the Beowulf project was named after the movie?

Re:What's that in bogomips

[funfail]

so *I AM THE ANSWER*

Then who is the question?

OMG, I'd love to see that

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, I'd love to see the look on the face of some slackjawed yokel when he hooks up some Lunix machine. Can you imagine how funny it's going to be when he can't even get the GUI to come up without spending a half hour trying to edit the configuration files?

And when he wants to install software on it... hilarity ensues!

BWAHAHAHA!!! Teh Lunix strikes again!

Re:OMG, I'd love to see that

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a slackjawed yokel and I run linux* on my John Deere tractor, you insensitive clod!

*my own custom distro based on Slack. I call it "Slackjaw".

Re:We are not clones of our average here.

[sm62704]

Please do not expect all of us to march in step.

Indeed, we're nerds. Don't expect any of us to march in step. If you see someone marching in step he probably doesn't belong here.

Re:What's that in bogomips

[wixardy]

Then who is the question?

He's on first.

Re:What's that in bogomips

[Anonymous Coward]

whoooooosh!