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It's hard to know the real story here -- we'd hate to think of a bunch of Mr. and Mrs. Nice Persons taking home a <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/gPC/">gPC</a> just to find it can't run that copy of Office or Half-Life 2 they were hoping to install -- but for whatever reason Wal-Mart is dropping its Linux "experiment" from store shelves and going back to selling the systems solely online. Apparently Wal-Mart did manage to <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/wal-mart-sells-out-of-the-200-linux-gpc/">sell out</a> its entire stock of gPCs in the 600 stores that got them before pulling the plug, but the $199 computer just "wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien. <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Everex/">Everex</a> spokesman Paul Kim says that online gPC sales were "significantly more effective," so apparently there aren't any hard feelings here.<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </p><p><a href=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_hi_te/wal_mart_linux_computer>Read</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/wal-mart-is-pulling-plug-on-in-store-gpc-experiment/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1136637/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/wal-mart-is-pulling-plug-on-in-store-gpc-experiment/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p><hr />
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