Hands-On With Everex's $200 gPC
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| Everex's stock in trade is delivering decent technology at rock-bottom
| prices. Its $200 gPC, available immediately, offers a no-gimmicks machine for
| a song. To get there, it broke away from standard low-end practice and opted
| for Linux. This turns what might otherwise be a bog-standard Windows PC into
| open source's first major assault on the most massive PC mass-market of them
| all: Wal-Mart shoppers that even Everex identifies as "unsophisticated."
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/11/hands-on-with-e.html
Related:
Linux PC vendor to track pirate Windows installations
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| Everex will know if you install a dodgy Microsoft OS
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| [...]
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| There, as part of a crackdown on infringing copies of Microsoft
| Windows, "regulatory agencies are checking to see that Linux actually works,"
| he said.
|
| Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth added, "We can't tell the difference between
| an Ubuntu user who installed for themselves or one who used a system from an
| OEM."
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=6001
Don't Buy Linux From Wal-Mart
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| From a hardware point of view, the gPC is a mini-tower system that comes with
| a Via C7-D low-power x86 clone running at 1.5GHz. Sounds pretty snazzy for
| only $199, doesn't it?
|
| The reality is that you can to do better.
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http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3708946
Wal-Mart Starts Selling Linux PCs for $198
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| Almost the Google PC: Everex gPC available at Wal-Mart
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| On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198,
| low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0
| applications.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9807133-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
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