According to Wired, Wal-Mart will be selling $200 dollar Linux PCs (not laptops) at some (list on Wired site) of their stores. The system has fairly low, but not unusable system specs and runs a version of Ubuntu Linux with the Enlightenment desktop. One of the things I find most interesting is that it has “programs” that are really links to various Google services. Hopefully, people will start to see that they can get a super-cheap PC with Linux and leave Windows behind.

Update: Turns out everyone is reporting on this. Look at this screenshot. I mentioned that some Google services were used like applications, but just look at this! I think that is seven out of sixteen of the icons down there are for Google services, plus the big Google search in the top right. This really is like a Google PC.

Also, another clarification: The PC is just being sold at Wal-Mart, it is designed and built by Everex.

Update 2: You can download the gOS here.

Complete Speculation (No real reason to believe this, just guessing randomly.): Is this PC so cheap because Google is paying Everex/Wal-Mart to put all their services on it?? EDIT: Nope. Not the case. See here.

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