I know it sounds to good to be true. Shuttle, a company that makes small desktop computers, has done it again. They made a new linux based desktop that starts out at $199. The only retailer so far is gonna be newegg.com. Linux based micro pc’s are becoming more popular since walmart started offering them for cheaper prices.

Inexpensive Linux-based PC offerings are on the rise of late, but it still remains a smaller niche of computing. Though Wal-Mart Stores began offering the Linux-based gPC from Everex for $198 last fall, and reported that it quickly ran out of its stock, last week the retail giant announced it would be pulling the gPC from its store shelves because it “wasn’t what (its) customers were looking for.”

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