"Eighteen months after shipping, AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) apparently still does not run Linux, despite criticism for using a commercial operating system given AMD's goal of reducing the cost of computing such that half of the world could enjoy Internet access by 2015.
"When the PIC reference design debuted in the fall of 2004, AMD touted a target end-user device price point of $185, including a keyboard, mouse, and preinstalled software for basic personal computing and internet/email access..."
