Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Sep 2006 22:43 UTC
GNOME's Luis Villa has wrote an interesting entry in his blog, explaining why it is in Linux's best interest that distribution communities seek out small Linux OEM companies and help them in providing the best Linux experience possible. "Obviously it is in RH, Canonical, and Novell's interests to actively pursue Big Enterprise Fish like HP and Dell. But I'm really surprised that the communities around these distros haven't sought out the smaller, and potentially growing, companies that are offering computers with Linux pre-installed. It seems like this is a win-win for everyone."
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2005-08-28
Regarding OEMs that pre-install linux, anyone have recommendations of decent ones? I have a couple of people wanting me to recommend them home systems and I'm leaning towards something that comes with a Linux distro pre-installed. So far, these guys look promising http://opensensesolutions.com/ with Ubuntu desktops. Anyone have experience with their products? Anyone else?
Now about the thread of discussion, sure, you are more likely to find some store (who'll charge of course, quite a bit in some cases) or a geeky friend/relative that can help folks with their windows ailments than their linux ones, but guess what? The biggest revenue generator for the folks that "fix" your computers for a fee (not counting hardware failures here in which case it makes no difference what OS you're running) is virus and spyware cleanups. The ubiquitous "My computers getting really slow now (and I get these weird popups a lot), can you fix it?" In other words, problems you're not going to get if you're running a linux distro in the first place...