Ubuntu For Everyone, thanks to Wal-Mart



I know a lot of sources had reported on the new $199 "green" Ubuntu PC called the gPC at Wal-Mart, but I actually downloaded the gOS and tried it out. Not only is it a slick, well thought and intuitive port of ubuntu, but now everyone can afford a computer, even dumb-ass white trash. The basic concept is that everyone primarily uses internet based apps anyway, so why load your average person down with apps they don't need. Links to blogger, facebook, all the google apps, meebo, you-tube, wikipedia and a google search integrated onto the desktop, it's really all "joe schmo" needs. Unlike vanilla ubuntu, right out of the box it comes with a number of proprietary and closed source plugins, drivers and codecs, which takes most of the guesswork out of opensource.

I think this an even greater triumph for the open-source/ubuntu community than Dell shipping linux PCs, because this is the linux for the people. Know what I mean, Vern?
- posted by Mason @ 5:11 PM