CES - Report: Google prepping low-cost PC with its own OS

Wal-Mart has sold low-cost PCs running desktop versions of Linux such as Linspire, Xandros, Novell Inc.'s Suse and Sun Microsystem Inc.'s Java Desktop System. The Bentonville, Ark. retailer started in 2002, though it has restricted such sales to its Brisbane, Calif.-based Web store only. Wal-Mart.com currently offers a Microtel-branded PC with a 1.5 GHz Sempron 2200+ AMD processor that runs Xandros Linux for $288. That computer does not have a monitor.