Linux PCs Discontinued at Wal-Mart Stores

eldavojohn writes "The $200 Linux PCs discussed earlier last year have been discontinued for sale at Wal-Mart's physical locations, though they will remain for sale at walmart.com. All this despite the systems repeatedly selling out. From the article, 'Paul Kim, brand manager for Everex, said selling the gPC online was "significantly more effective" than selling it in stores.'"

Re:More interesting from the article..

[SnoopJeDi]

I don't know about you, but I just keep reusing the same oscilloscope from system to system...

Re:More interesting from the article..

[Stormscape]

I don't know about you, but I just keep reusing the same oscilloscope from system to system...

Real men use binary printouts to figure out what their computer is telling them.

Re:More interesting from the article..

[gsn]

Excuse me but real men use butterflies. You see the change in system state as the output is calculated creates temperature differences which in turn create pockets of higher pressure air to form near the computer. Such a small change in the distribution of heat near the earth's surface creates minute, immeasurable, changes in atmospheric circulation. Fortunately it also annoys butterflies which come around flapping their wings outside my window and I've learnt how to read the output from the number of butterflies and the individual and group flapping patterns. I even use the reverse technique to program on occasion but its faster to use a vi shortcut -> :dwit for do what I think. Emacs is useless and has no such feature but you can still use the butterflies.

http://www.xkcd.com/378/ [xkcd.com]

   

Re:No worries, mate

[kitsunewarlock]

Actually he said "on Walmart". He was obviously referring to the small town in South Wales.

Re:No worries, mate

[shellbeach]

Actually he said "on Walmart". He was obviously referring to the small town in South Wales.

Actually, he said "on Walmar" (no 't'). http://www.walmar.net/ [walmar.net] doesn't seem to sell many PCs, but they do feature a zero-flush waterless urinal [walmar.net] which sounds pretty similar to Vista basic if you ask me ...

Re:No worries, mate

[kitsunewarlock]

I meant to say "On Walmar" myself...which is the name of the town in _new_ Southern Wales.

But typo'ing a complaint against a typo is...well I fail.

Re:How much of it was support / training costs

[raehl]

We don't have any Walmarts here, but what are they like with Windows?

I don't think any Wal-Marts have windows. Just brick all around, glass doors in the front, and some loading docks.

Re:Microsoft Bribe?

[civilizedINTENSITY]

Obviously they confused "market share" with "desktop share" and might not know what a server even is...(queue joke regarding the newbie who thought MS made a server OS).

Lumpy indeed

[patiodragon]

"...because I was too lazy to buy online..."

Damn, I don't even know how I could make a better joke than you did already.

Re:A thought

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

(From your sig:)

>Ubuntu 7.10 was the first Linux install I've ever done that worked! (Now what do I do with it?)

Replace it with Gentoo.