Firm expands experiment selling low-cost PCs running Linux OS. Web site now has lines of Microtel PCs with installed Lindows, Mandrake. May be milestone for Linux public acceptance. Sales are above expectations. [CNET News.com]

Price-conscious retailer is rolling back prices on Linux PCs. On its Web site, it has widened its range of Microtel desktop PCs, with and without LindowsOS installed, with GUI and ability to run Windows programs. [ZDNet]

Robertson started a firm competing against Microsoft Windows in the PC OS market, named his cheap OS and firm Lindows (one letter different), and to ensure Microsoft hates him, has a $200, 000 reward for anyone hacking Xbox. [USA Today]

Change of heart: From our in-depth testing, it turns out that Lindows 2.0 isn't a disappointment after all. In fact, we kind of liked it. It is a very slick, highly usable OS. [ZDNet ExtremeTech]

Will lend open source hand to Whitebox PC makers by distributing LindowsOS on one drive model at no cost. Any US computer maker can buy 40GB Barracuda 7200.7 pre-loaded with LindowsHD or without at same cost, should save about $100 per box. [The Register]

Lindows.com, a 20-person San Diego company led by former MP3.com Chief Executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell preview version of Linux to run popular Windows programs. Version 1.0 is due early 2002. [CNET News.com]

A company selling PCs preinstalled with the Linspire OS starting at under $300.

Lindows is a cheap OS that runs Linux and Windows code, with a name that mixes both, and which looks like Windows. Why isn't anyone taking it seriously? [ZDNet PC Magazine]