OT: Dell to offer linux pre-installed on desktops

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 29 20:20:10 UTC 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:58:07PM -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Nah .. but maybe we can start a betting line on that ..
> 
> Ubuntu: 2:1
> RedHat: 5:1
> Debian: 20:1
> Slack: 100:1
> Gentoo: 10,000:1

Given it is Dell, I would think RedHat and SuSE are the top two most
likely, with Ubuntu a posibility.  Gentoo and Slack are not a chance,
and Debian is pretty unlikely too.

Of course I still have an athlon 700 that I built, so what do I care. :)
I am not in the market to buy a Dell no matter what they would pre
install.  Maybe I will take over use of my wife's athlon 64 3200 laptop
when she gets a new one in the next couple of months (She is eyeing
one of the tablet PCs).  Of course most of the time, and athlon 700 is
plenty for running a linux desktop machine.  NwN might run a bit nicer
with a faster CPU, but it is playable.

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