That is awesome, computers coming with linux pre-installed. Truly awesome. An excellent first step.
Frothy Coffee!
That is awesome, computers coming with linux pre-installed. Truly awesome. An excellent first step.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
Ubuntu and H-P seem to be getting along well, at least in South Africa and Europe. So says Google, anyway.
Way Too Much Ubuntu
Doesnt HP sell its laptops with MS-DOS to keep Microsoft happy, then include Ubuntu in the box?
Gee! These Aren't Roasted!
Just how could Dell escape MS's censorship?
Way Too Much Ubuntu
They could tell Microsoft and Intel to go shove it but then Dell would die. Amd and linux time will come.
Banned
Dell france is selling it, and mandriva is from france...
The only thing holding back the big companies from putting linux as default is microsoft. Theyd put the price of windows up if anything happened...
Bubbleheaded Star Child
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A Carafe of Ubuntu
Thus enhancing the odds of customers choosing Linux for an even more substantial discount.
Frothy Coffee!
IMHO I think that the reason that Linux is being offered in parts of Europe and Africa is there is a real demand for Linux in those places. If more people requested Linux in the US, Dell and the other PC makers would offer it. You can request no OS when ordering and load your own if you wish though.
Frothy Coffee!
the problem is that MS can use piracy as an excuse to stop linux from being sold by OEMs. they just have to say that nobody really wants to use linux anyway, and all the people who buy computers preloaded with linux are just pirates who aregoing to wipe linux off their Hdds and put a pirated version of windows on there. and because of this, they reward OEMs like dell for helping to stop piracy by offering them rebates.
and im pretty sure that that is actually true to an extent. piracy is in the short term a much bigger problem for MS than opensource is. but in the longterm, opensource is going to be hurting em real badly.
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