Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Feb 2007 21:28 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Dell has announced that more of their systems will be available with Linux pre-installed: "It's exciting to see the IdeaStorm community's interest in open source solutions like Linux and OpenOffice. We are listening, and as a result, we are working with Novell to certify our corporate client products for Linux, including our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision workstations. This is another step towards ensuring that our customers have a good experience with Linux on our systems." In addition: " Dell recognizes our customers' desire to have unlimited control over the software on their PC. In fact, today XPS customers can opt-out of almost all preinstalled software. We will be expanding this effort in the coming months."
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2006-08-26
I would actually nuance your comments by saying that what geeks adopt at home they eventually drag in to work. Most businesses in the early 1980's had to be dgragged kicking and screaming off their green-screens to PC's. Their IT people were to busy fiddling with their Wangs and mainframes. Just as in the 1990's I started seeing "unofficial" machines pop up in data centers used for various tasks - running Linux.
I whole heartedly agree that they have to figure out how to economically support Linux. Some companies support Linux, but what they mean is they're still supporting RH9, AS 3, and SuSE 9. However, I think it would be worth their while to crack this nut. Of the people that buy computers every couple of years - I imagine quite a number are geeks. It would be nice to see the $999 laptop with a Linux compatible wirless chipset and video card.