Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 29th Mar 2007 09:07 UTC, submitted by brewin
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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2006-11-17
"a system loaded with adware/bloatware (which you can bet will be even worse now that they have source code access -- heck, if they use an open-source BIOS, they can modify it to prevent the machine from booting into anyting other than the official Dell distro), or worse yet, a system that couldn't fully run the OS it shipped"
That won't happen if they use linux, because it's GPL. I don't want just open source, I don't want some OS/X-like BSD relicensed, or some crap like that. I want a free as in GNU system. People asked for linux because linux is the most advanced GPL'ed kernel. The Hurd is crap and openSolaris is not yet GPL'ed. What people really ask is GNU freedom.
If Dell offer linux, they can't offer anything less than freedom, because they can't modify it to be less free than GPL.