Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 23:01 UTC, submitted by shykid
Dell began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows. Dell posted the survey on a company blog, asking PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.
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2005-07-07
Personally I'm not interested in Linux and would instead love to see a FreeBSD desktop variant as an option besides 'other'.
Well, I'm a 100% linux guy and don't care about FreeBSD. Someone loves Ubuntu, someone SLED, someone RH. See the pattern? No real solution here.
This why I specified other and said I would like "works with linux" sticker. Most of the linux HCL hardware can be supported if not yet in any other OS. Linux is just the best starting point because it has the biggest number of drivers. In your case one could just get two cases, you probably wouldn't like the predefault FreeBSD (and you're probably capable to set it up your self), FreeBSD could take on some drivers if needed because if they would be picked from HCL it would mean they can be implemented in FeeBSD too.
In case of HCL hardware they could just put all choices on the menu. Each and every one would work out of the box and their both free versions have very good community support. While in case of commercial, customers would buy that one too.