Star Dell Confirms Plans to Offer Pre-Installed Linux
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Mar 2007 09:07 UTC, submitted by brewin
Hardware, Embedded Systems Dell has confirmed plans to offer Linux pre-installed on systems beyond their existing servers and Precision workstation line. Dell will provide an update in the coming weeks that includes detailed information on which systems they will offer, their testing and certification efforts, and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available.
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RE[2]: Music to my ears!
by Laurence on Thu 29th Mar 2007 11:18 UTC in reply to "RE: Music to my ears!"
Laurence
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2007-03-26

Wow. They listened. No matter what distro they chose they couldn't satisfy everyone. While they may still choose a distro to ship, at least we know we can ourselves install whatever distro we want, since they are trying for hardware with open drivers. That is certainly better than standardizing on a distro/kernel and shipping binary drivers for stuff. Kudos to Dell, they'll have my support next time I buy a machine.

Also nice to keep in mind that Linux compatible hardware is in no way Windows incompatible, so there should be no downside for the masses who use it, things will basically be the same. Huge positive for the minority, no change for the majority: can't hurt.


Good point
(why doesn't my + / - voting buttons work?)

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