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| MrMagic:
While this release may seem disheartening, consider the "market" that WalMart serves -- the folks that want $50 DVD players and $200 PCs. At the same time, Dell is selling all the Linux boxes they can make -- but these aren't $200 machines. So, maybe the market for ultra-cheap PCs is not there (no surprise to me!)
Two other things that may not be apparent are:
1) They sold all the machines in inventory in the stores
2) They are still selling the Linux boxes on their online site
So, all they've really decided to do is not restock the stores.
They also (or so I read) picked Freespire for their Disto -- certainly not the most well-known. They could have picked either of two other more windows-like distros (PCLinuxOS or Linux Mint), but they didn't. So, I don't know to what degree that affected customer satisfaction with the product.
But ... yeah ... GNU/Linux is still very much a power user solution, even today.
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| Agreed, but my point is that if they can't sell it in WALMART on a CHEAP $400.00 pc, when and how is ANYBODY going to sell it. The majors try from time to time and then always withdraw. The things just don't sell.
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