Tech Computing Start-up launches low-cost Linux PCs Linare, a company that integrates computers and software, is selling systems costing $199 with its own version of Linux.

French Linux distributor MandrakeSoft releases a version of the open-source operating system that it says is optimized for creating low-budget supercomputers.

Acer, the world's third-largest PC maker, believes that Linux software is a key to the low-cost laptop computer movement and hopes to create a community around the devices, a top executive said.

A couple plastic lenses held in place by a chunk of cardboard isn't terribly high tech. But once you have that technology in place, Google Cardboard lets you literally transport to another world.