OT: Dell to offer linux pre-installed on desktops

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:19:30PM -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:
> it's certainly interesting to watch Dell twist and turn in the avalanche of
> public opinion at IdeaStorm: preloading Linux (thus making sure that it
> works) is clearly something that's in demand. Once Dell understands that
> Linux will help them sell hardware (their mission, after all), they'll be
> all over it.
> 
> Or, you would think.

Now is Dell going to avoid machines that require proprietary drivers?
After all in the past they have claimed RedHat support for some of their
machines but the raid card or other device would only work if you used a
binary only driver that was only available for specific redhat kernels.

Still amazing to see Dell go from pure Wintel, to their current state.
They actually deal a bit with non intel, and they deal a bit with non
windows, even if they try not to really do it very much or even want to
admit it very clearly.

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