Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Aug 2009 16:07 UTC, submitted by lemur2
We already discussed David Finch, Dell's senior product marketing manager for Linux clients, last week. We missed, however, some more interesting statements by Finch; Dell is looking into the 
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RE[3]: Not default - Xandros is bad
by lemur2 on Tue 18th Aug 2009 01:12
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Member since:2007-02-17
It was a poor choice by Asus to preinstall Xandros and worse that they chose to provide a sub-set of Xandros from there own custom repositories. Other vendors are doing it right with a strong and well known full distribution. Even the Eee flavored after market distributions are better than the vendor chosen mess.
Perhaps you may notice that the "vendor chosen mess" seems to align moderately well (with Dell being at least one notable exception) with the "signed a deal with Microsoft" group of Linux distributions.
You may also notice that the "signed a deal with Microsoft" group of Linux distributions also happens to align with the "not good for the end users" group of Linux distributions pretty much exactly.
RE[4]: Not default - Xandros is bad
by jabbotts on Tue 18th Aug 2009 13:08
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Member since:2007-09-06
Yup.. as someone else mentioned, at least it's reduced the retail cost of Windows a little through more natural competition. Good on Dell for putting more than token effort into it; if they braught the hardware quality up to Thinkpad standards and let the community developers into the binary hardware blobs, they'd take a giant step further ahead of the pack.
Either MS becomes more competitive through pricing and product quality or they go away and natural market forces bring a better platform to the front. Both outcomes benefit the end user though it seems the first potential outcome is the method so far.
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2007-09-06
It was a poor choice by Asus to preinstall Xandros and worse that they chose to provide a sub-set of Xandros from there own custom repositories. Other vendors are doing it right with a strong and well known full distribution. Even the Eee flavored after market distributions are better than the vendor chosen mess.