Middle America Rejects Wal-Mart Linux Experiment

For some reason, Wal-Mart customers meet aren’t opinion Linux. Four months after the retail concern began unshoed the uber-cheap $200 Everex "Green gPC," the concern has proclaimed the research a unfortunate despite commerce discover of the UNIX PCs.

"This rattling wasn’t what our customers were hunting for," a Wal-Mart spokeswoman told the AP, adding that the retail concern has definite not to restock the gPC.

While Wal-Mart module cease commerce Linux-based PCs on accumulation shelves, Walmart.com module move to substance the gPC and another Linux-based systems, including the gPC2 (also $200) and the Everex CloudBook ($400).

Apparently, that’s OK with Apostle Kim, sort trainer for Everex, who said the commerce the gPC online was "significantly more effective" anyway.

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