Hi, welcome to Wally World! Everyone's buzzing about Wal-Mart offering Microtel PC's with Lindows OS. The usual Linux crowd apparently views this as some sort of breakthrough - "To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows...". My, my - these city boys shore do get hot and bothered over a lot of blather. I already know of a fair number of Linux machines in this neck of the woods - they are the preferred router for the home LANs connected to our local WiFi ISP. (The ISP's antenna is up top of Loretta's beauty parlor).

But the penguin humpers better take care. As NewsForge observes in their review, "To say that Lindows runs most Microsoft programs is a bit of a stretch." When the "legions of rednecks" find out that the thing is a powered doorstop when it comes to running most consumer software, it'll go right back to Wally World and Linux's name will be mud.