Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th May 2008 16:20 UTC
It's one of those catch phrases that never really seems to die out. Wherever you look in the operating systems world, at personal blogs written in crummy English, or at high-profile quality websites, there is bound to be someone, somewhere who used it. Even I, myself, used it in articles in a far and distant past, and I'm not particularly proud of it. "Ready for the desktop" is no longer acceptable - in fact, it's on its way out.
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Member since:2006-01-19
"ready for OEMs?"
probably the question should be turned on it's head:
"Are the OEM's ready for the operating system?"
They seem to be ready for Apple, and for Windows.
Dell is just trying to wade into the shallow waters with Linux, but seems to be reluctant to plunge fully into it. Some of this may be due to hardware/driver issues.
And Dell probably does not want to have thousands of people pounding on the support doors, so they don't actively advertize Linux preinstalled PCs. They want to sell Linux PCs mostly to people who know their way around Linux, so they don't need much manpower for support.
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2005-11-10
The question that should be asked, is "ready for OEMs?". Ready for the Desktop is irrelevant when you have to install an OS over the one you got for 'free' [sic]