Linux in the Mainstream: Why Does It Matter?

Ah, Spring. It's the time of rebirth, renewal and hope, and it's almost here!

Too bad, then, that so many hopes were dashed last week when Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) Latest News about Wal-Mart announced it was pulling the Linux-driven Everex Green gPC from its retail store shelves. That PC's original inclusion at Wal-Mart created enormous excitement throughout the Linux world -- it was taken by many as concrete evidence that Linux had finally arrived -- so this latest news came as something of a crushing disappointment to many.

The sold-out machine will still be available online at Walmart.com, but its apparent failure in the brick-and-mortar mainstream world unleashed a fiery storm of comments in the blogosphere far and wide.

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