Linux Nixed By Wal-Mart?
Here’s a brief, but good news blurb we came across for computer repair experts and Linux-loving conspiracy theorists alike...
According to the Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart is preparing to stop selling PCs running the Linux operating system in its stores.
The nation's biggest retailer started selling Linux PCs in the fall of 2007, prompting the Wall Street Journal to write that if the PCs proved to be popular with consumers, businesses might start running the operating system on the PCs that workers use.
While businesses regularly run Linux on servers, back-office computers that process data hardly ever run Linux on PCs.
The gist?
Wal-Mart is ditching Linux in stores even though it sold out of the machines, which undoubtedly fed the theories of a vocal crowd of Linux fanatics who’re convinced that The Man is conspiring to kill Linux.
It’s more likely culprit is The Market.
Wal-Mart says the computers weren’t what its customer were looking for, but that it will continue selling Linux PCs on its website.
