OSWeekly: RPLinux: China's Answer to the $100 PC

[ Thanks to Matt D. for this link. ]

"A while back, I stumbled upon something called the Municator PC from YellowSheepRiver Municator, Inc. At first, I thought this had to be yet another hoax, but as I looked deeper into it, I found out that China has done a fairly nice job of taking the distribution, known as RPLinux, and integrating it with Chinese made hardware.

"Here in the West, we have tried to create a market for such Linux options as Linspire, Xandros and other commercial Linux distributions to be bundled with OEM machines..."

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