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Windows today is like a modern cellphone
Full of neat gadgets, IM tools, web browsers, snazzy ringtones and wallpapers, PTT, you name it.

But some people just want a phone.

Linux fills this niche nicely. Windows unfortunately cannot.

This will also be a test of how well Linux can keep... well... Linux, behind the scenes.
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Windows today is like a modern cellphone  Sabz5150 | 11/13/07
One of the many reasons I won't use Windows.  Henrik Moller | 11/13/07
My Sides Hurt...  GuyAlanDye | 11/13/07
M$ buys Walmart and Google  fr0thy | 11/13/07
M$ couldn't buy WalMart fer sure  Weldon@... | 11/14/07
Me_Too ?  Me_too | 11/15/07
Me too  fr0thy | 11/19/07
Hammer with sequins?  _Shayde_ | 11/13/07
I take it that you don't care for Linux.  Henrik Moller | 11/13/07
Let's adjust your metaphor  fr0thy | 11/13/07
Metaphor??  jr1203 | 11/13/07
Why would you stay for years in a place like this?  otaddy | 11/13/07
Why would you stay for years in a place like this?  Henry Miller | 11/13/07
"if windows is so bad, why have you stayed with it?"  fr0thy | 11/14/07
Why stay with Windows?  mach37 | 11/15/07
Shouldn't a metaphor have real-life application?  dshawk | 11/14/07
What?  Limpalot | 11/15/07
Apples and Oranges  hiraghm@... | 11/20/07
Close  rtk | 11/20/07
re close  ∞Dilemma | 11/20/07
'open source' anarchy  perchecreek | 12/21/07
Oooh, Oooh !  Jkirk3279 | 11/15/07
keep it simple  harold.d.edwards@... | 11/13/07
Here Ya' Go . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
simple but expensive...  qtrback | 11/14/07
Linux is more productive and maintenance free  rigo12 | 11/14/07
no pc is maintenance free  rtk | 11/14/07
I Wonder  voyager529 | 11/13/07
The OS is . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
Problems abound  Ole Man | 11/13/07
BS abounds even more  mawhonic02@... | 11/17/07
I wonder over the years if a great many pruchaser's  Laff | 11/13/07
Why would they?  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Norm?  Mike Hunt | 11/13/07
No you're looking at it from an IT perspective.  ju1ce | 11/13/07
A book is of no use to anyone who can't read  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Perhaps  laura.b | 11/13/07
Perhaps  Ole Man | 11/13/07
I think  laura.b | 11/13/07
Point taken  Ole Man | 11/13/07
I get your point...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Juice  Mike Hunt | 11/13/07
To Mike Hunt  ju1ce | 11/13/07
No, you don't get my point  Ole Man | 11/13/07
You really have no idea do you?  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Does that car come with tires?  GuidingLight | 11/13/07
Just like I said  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Well said Guiding..  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Does that car come with tires?  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Too bad some people just "don't get it"  Ole Man | 11/13/07
When "the norm" means .....  fr0thy | 11/13/07
"point and click"  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/07
Ju1ce, self validating?  Mike Hunt | 11/13/07
Agreed theories in some senses...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Change that to "Anything but Microsoft"  Ole Man | 11/13/07
The norm IS Microsoft  fr0thy | 11/13/07
Re: I get your point...  none none | 11/13/07
Who "went to IE" by choice?  devlin_X | 11/13/07
OS doesn't matter  voska | 11/13/07
I think you are incorrect as much as I'd like to agree with you.  ju1ce | 11/13/07
If he's used Windows the entire time  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Looking for an alternative?  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Windows is good and does what it needs to do  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Correction... their point... NOT they're point  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Then explain to me...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Then explain to me...  Ole Man | 11/13/07
It's okay we can agree to disagree...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
It's okay we can agree to disagree...  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Re: I think you are incorrect as much as I'd like to agree with you.  none none | 11/13/07
I should say this voska...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Your idea of the norm ....  fr0thy | 11/13/07
Why would they -  mach37 | 11/15/07
well well well i cant remember who said that  Quebec-french | 11/13/07
Joe 6 paquets n'a pas besoin d'une uber-machine  Mujibahr | 11/13/07
Great quote  Chad_z | 11/13/07
about time  sevenbrewer | 11/13/07
Where's NoAxe? Where's Ou?  nizuse | 11/13/07
Here's what they will say  voska | 11/13/07
Yeah, they'll say that, but we all know...  el1jones | 11/13/07
Not to mention . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
Bitty Will Accuse Linux Of Monopolizing The PC Market  itanalyst | 11/13/07
And Zuny will call it dumping  Ole Man | 11/13/07
I don;'t believe so..  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Is that why Microsoft offerings are so expensive?  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Let's see...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
...and how much do you pay for that support?  odubtaig | 11/13/07
odubtaig, you shoulda known  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Hey man I agree...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Hey man I agree...  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Since I like to disagree wit hyou..  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Posted in the wrong place (above) @Juice  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Re: Hey man I agree...  fr0thy | 11/13/07
The side of me you may not understand...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
I have been asked to do just that  GuidingLight | 11/13/07
Two out of a mere 10,000 sold nation wide!?!  Laff | 11/14/07
How to get Rupert to respond  DonRupertBitByte | 11/13/07
Wal-Mart is lying  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/07
Mike Cox, where are you?  MisterMiester | 11/13/07
Now, you know . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
I wouldn't dream  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/07
6.0  Mike Hunt | 11/13/07
Nice Try YGK  BanjoPaterson | 11/13/07
Or possibly in an institution grin (NT)  odubtaig | 11/13/07
The Wal-Mart here is sold out.  OldMarine | 11/14/07
Wal-Mart Linux Failure  lyndaj70@... | 11/21/07
Nice NAS Box or Home Server...  MisterMiester | 11/13/07
SME Server 7.2  jimbo689 | 11/13/07
I don't know.  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Everything is imbedded...  JCitizen | 11/14/07
Correction - I was wrong.  JCitizen | 11/17/07
And a nice safe cheap PC for new child user  ibtechnologies@... | 11/13/07
Bitty Can't Come To The Keyboard Right Now  itanalyst | 11/13/07
Free Software Downloads  ceh4702 | 11/13/07
I cannot wait until  BroGnorik | 11/13/07
At least  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Computers do have other uses besides games  Mike Hunt | 11/13/07
There are LInux Games like you mentioned . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
RE: Free Software Downloads  nwoodson@... | 11/13/07
OS-Agnostic  jamesdivine | 11/13/07
Amen to that!!! (nt)  JLHenry | 11/13/07
Yes some people  BroGnorik | 11/16/07
LOL, Wal-Mart has More than 4000 stores in the US  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
lol, yeah...  jasonp@... | 11/13/07
LOL, Yeah the Truth hurts the religious!! As I type this  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
Sure...  jasonp@... | 11/14/07
Not a failure  voska | 11/13/07
You said...  Laff | 11/13/07
Confusing computer illiterate with stupidity  Ole Man | 11/13/07
I Agree!! Otherwise we would all be using Mac's! NT.  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
Anti-Trust anyone??  mdsmedia | 11/13/07
?  tymiles | 11/14/07
Typo  tymiles | 11/14/07
Maybe techies are buying them?  g_walby | 11/13/07
As long as we're considering conspiracy theories...  jamesdivine | 11/13/07
LOL, Good one! But I was thinking about buying one  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
No Doubt....Why not.....  LazLong | 11/13/07
Just run gOS in a virtual machine  shutrbug | 11/13/07
BYOC  Rick_R | 11/13/07
Sure, if you're going to whitebox it...  jamesdivine | 11/13/07
Amen  nwoodson@... | 11/13/07
Well not to knock this computer....  mrOSX | 11/13/07
DVD Burner  itpro_z | 11/13/07
According to Walmarts site it is a DVD-ROm/CDRW  mrlinux1@... | 11/13/07
Wait a minute...  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Last Time I checked . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
Coming home to roost  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Wal-Mart Shoppers Buy on Impulse  cnfrisch | 11/13/07
And they might be very happy with their purchase  jimbo689 | 11/13/07
Yes, it's much more intelligent  Ole Man | 11/13/07
He is right though  laura.b | 11/13/07
I don't agree with him about the intellegence line..  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Yes, I was  laura.b | 11/13/07
He's a she and is an MVP  TripleII | 11/13/07
This is what Buyers see  voska | 11/13/07
I think . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
No, it isn't running Vista  TripleII | 11/13/07
That's double the price though  voska | 11/13/07
They've also rated this system high in customer reviews  critic-at-arms | 11/14/07
Linux and Apple, Yahoo!  mnpundit | 11/13/07
Unsophisticated shoppers  frgough | 11/13/07
Can't play games? What kid will want that?  GeiselS@... | 11/13/07
When playing games become "Computercide"  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Hey Ole Man, you better hope and pray this does not catch on  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
No more so than most other people  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Sorry Bud, did not mean make it sound like a flame post!  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
No problem!  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Most kids . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
Online games are popular with kids  mystic100 | 11/13/07
That's like my daughter . . .  JLHenry | 11/13/07
An ******** gamers are a different market  voska | 11/14/07
That's what the X-Box is for  voska | 11/14/07
Games  Dave32265 | 11/14/07
WoW? Diablo 2?  LadyGray | 11/14/07
WoW and Diablo2:  KWierso | 11/14/07
Cedega  Dave32265 | 11/14/07
Have you found a brain?  henklaak | 11/13/07
How many are gifts  THEE WOLF | 11/13/07
Alternatively  Ole Man | 11/13/07
AHAHAHAHA  Dave32265 | 11/14/07
One problem with that  laura.b | 11/13/07
Yeh good catch! Also he's going to ask about the monitor first and  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
re: How many are gifts  wogsterca | 11/13/07
I don't know about you, but...  KWierso | 11/14/07
How many turn around and install Windows on it?  PB_z | 11/13/07
I agree on the FreeDos computers but this actualy  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
Opp's should read "an OS most people can use" NT  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
XP key generators can be found in the wild to get you past the install  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Re: You certainly are "JustAnAboveAverageJoe" Thank you!!  JustAnAboveAverageJoe | 11/13/07
Sorry about that, JustAnAboveAverageJoe  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Expensive way to buy a computer  John L. Ries | 11/14/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  teddybairs1 | 11/13/07
Very Interesting..... only 1000 in the US?  LazLong | 11/13/07
I'd actually be interested in buying one..  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Not sure I am clear... what you mean...  LazLong | 11/13/07
Well isn't that nice.  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Well, you got "snide" down....  LazLong | 11/13/07
I laughed sorry...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Sorry, Juice  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Well obviously in our usual sense of disagreement.  ju1ce | 11/13/07
I see now where our differences lie  Ole Man | 11/13/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  Okieman46 | 11/13/07
A few questions...  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Easy answer...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
But doesn't that do damage?  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Perhaps you don't remember trying  Update victim | 11/13/07
I do remember  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Agreed wholeheatedly...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Agree, somewhat  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Substitution  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/13/07
Very true when it comes to home users. (NT)  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Easy, but suspect  IT_User | 11/13/07
Appliance computers...  itpro_z | 11/13/07
What I would like to see...  Dave32265 | 11/14/07
re: A Few Questions  Okieman46 | 11/13/07
It's not  voska | 11/13/07
Most people don't even know....  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Which Distro?  dsentelle@... | 11/13/07
It's gOS  shutrbug | 11/13/07
???Wal-Mart shoppers" all have a relative in IT now..  djsmith_1998@... | 11/13/07
I'd buy one of these in a heartbeat...  TranMan | 11/13/07
MS bleeding  ibtechnologies@... | 11/13/07
Hardware move faster than software  itpro_z | 11/13/07
Open Office is available on Window & Macs  jnheroy@... | 11/13/07
It appears adequate, but...  goyta | 11/13/07
I'm not pro- or anti-anything  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Well against my better judgement...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
Well, Juice  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Re: It appears adequate, but...  none none | 11/13/07
Yeah, follows the same line as...  ju1ce | 11/13/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  helenb1azes@... | 11/13/07
To get more clicks (for which he gets paid)  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Why  helenb1azes@... | 11/13/07
Why do you ask?  Ole Man | 11/13/07
Proving A Point Again  IAHawkeye | 11/13/07
Yes, a combination of cheap hardware, cheap software, and online  DonnieBoy | 11/13/07
A little research saves a lot of face....  devlin_X | 11/13/07
Very good point!! Many are best to stick with Windows for now, but switch  DonnieBoy | 11/13/07
Not only that, but...  itpro_z | 11/13/07
I'm shocked, shocked!  Tony Agudo | 11/13/07
Is that a lot?  roaming | 11/13/07
I don't think Wal-Mart expected a sell out so quick...  Tony Agudo | 11/14/07
Hold the Press!  rkuhn040172@... | 11/14/07
The Press is running now  Tony Agudo | 11/14/07
I Stand By My Statements  rkuhn040172@... | 11/15/07
I have a gPC - review online  scott1329 | 11/14/07
Why would they use an Alpha release?  pfyearwood | 11/14/07
A Rush to Judgment?  LazLong | 11/14/07
You can install the Ubuntu destop easily on it  lyndaj70@... | 11/21/07
Maybe they don't know what they are buying  jpr75_z | 11/14/07
It Is Well Worth $200.00  bocamp22 | 11/14/07
Master Joe Says...  MasterJoe | 11/14/07
Only a clueless moron  Ole Man | 11/14/07
The irony of this post is too much.  rtk | 11/14/07
Long after the iron-ee  Ole Man | 11/15/07
Ole Man - the clueless moron  fr0thy | 11/14/07
You've got his name and number  Ole Man | 11/15/07
It is just a niche  seaczar | 11/14/07
An appliance like any other  sbrasseux@... | 11/14/07
you are right  seaczar | 11/14/07
Why should they all use the same operating system.  Ole Man | 11/14/07
That's given me something good to say about M$  fr0thy | 11/14/07
re: why should they use the same operating system  seaczar | 11/14/07
I think you're the one who missed the point, completely  Ole Man | 11/15/07
Vista Basic Killer  kakman1@... | 11/15/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  Reged | 11/15/07
More work for techie friends - Look! It's a kiosk computer  ramjetwiebe | 11/15/07
Aww, shucks!  Ole Man | 11/15/07
Been Selling Them for Years  fred@... | 11/15/07
I was installing XP Home for a lot of people then.  JCitizen | 11/17/07
Neat gadgets?  techiebiker | 11/16/07
Please Call 1-800-walmart for support  scottmathewson@... | 11/20/07
I have returned several things to walmart  Ole Man | 11/20/07
Everex sure isn't going to help...  JCitizen | 11/23/07
confuse the heck out of newbies!  Ole Man | 11/25/07
Yes I would be surprised at hearing of any help..  JCitizen | 11/26/07
Linux not point-n-click???  lyndaj70@... | 11/21/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  Alexious | 11/27/07
Asus Terminator Series  ceh4702 | 11/29/07
I think we all know we can make a better - cheaper...  JCitizen | 11/30/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  LinuxOwns | 12/05/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  info@... | 12/06/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  info@... | 12/06/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  Gralyndr | 12/06/07
Most don't care what O/S.  Billy.Jones@... | 12/06/07
Just the old variation of bait and switch...  mikifinaz1@... | 12/06/07
open source anarchy  perchecreek | 12/21/07
RE: Wal-Mart's $200 PC - sold out  asdfa74sd@... | 01/26/08

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