Walmart goes open source with the EVEREX IMPACT
Yeah, you read correctly. The "axis of evil" has made a move away from the dark side, bringing a budget PC with no bloatware and…wait for it…a copy of Open Office pre-installed. The PC itself is the Everex IMPACT GC3502, and sports a 1.5 Ghz VIA processor, a full Gig of RAM, 80 GB hard drive, and a DVD burner. Whoa! Nothing groundbreaking, but for $298 you would be hard pressed to do a whole lot better. The box runs Windows Vista Home Basic, and the company claims that they haven’t jacked the system up with layers and layers of novelty software. We’ll believe it when we see it, but it certainly sounds like something to get excited about.
What!! Walmart… I don’t know I think hell has frozen over and the end is near. May god help us all. Then again this could be some evil secret to win back their customers (those that have left for so many other reasons.)
no hell freezes over when the pheonix carnals win the super bowl> linux is being itroduced to the public enmass
Wow! that is cheap. Too bad this comes at a time when 64-bit is becoming the norm now. Even at $300 bucks I don’t think it’s worth it, IMO.