The company, best known for its consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, on Thursday launched a $449 desktop computer with a flat-panel monitor. It's the second such announcement from Lindows in just a few weeks. In July, the company unveiled a $169 network computer, the WebStation, which lacks a hard drive and a floppy drive.

The new machine, by contrast, is a full-featured system. The KooBox is built around a 1.2GHz Duron processor from Advanced Micro Devices and offers 256MB of synchronous DRAM (expandable to 1GB), a 20GB hard drive, a 56x CD-ROM drive, a 10/100 Ethernet connection, a 56K modem and 140-watt speakers. The 14.1-inch LCD (liquid crystal dispay) monitor has a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels

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