Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Feb 2006 13:06 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Is Dell is on its way to becoming the first tier-one PC vendor to offer a mainstream business Linux desktop to US customers? It's starting to look that way. Dell has started advertising a trio of affordable workstations with RHEL WS 4 preinstalled."
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2005-07-06
So what's next, the sky will turn red ?
) starts to see some prospect in putting linux there.
Ok, so this is good news, in a sense... I mean I can't see people jumping up in joy and running off to buy linux-preinstalled machines just because Dell begins to sell them. Otherwise, it's nice to see when a big player (and Dell does sell a fair amount of desktop machines to the crowd, or doesn't it
I just wish they didn't put RHEL WS 4 on those... yes I know RH linuxes all over, for many years now, and still I wish they didn't put it on those machines. Especially since these are in the price range where almost everybody could afford to by one. Why ? Because I believe these machines will be also bought by people who are fairly new to linux so a more user friendly lame proof distro would have been better, IMO, $.02. I know, one (i.e. Dell) needs a company-backed OS on those boxes, still, there's not only RH out there.