__/ [ B Gruff ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 12:51 \__
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 08:20 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> At the moment, I have SuSE 8.1 (circa 2002) running on a
>> Dell, which I must admit is Linux-friendly. I tried two
>> separate Dell models with Ubuntu and SuSE and everything
>> worked just fine 'out of the box'. I'd raise two thumbs for
>> Dell if it were not for all the "Dell recommends Windows XP"
>> malarkey, which is of course something from Microsoft's
>> books. Also see the recent article from NewsForge on the
>> state of OEM's and O/Sen in North America.
>
> Yep, but also note that Dell U.K. are advertising Linux with quite high-end
> stuff in the U.K.
> By that, I mean that it's in the list of OS options on their site.
> I think that price-wise it's "ring us", which leads me to wonder if they
> are stuck in some way to *not* show the actual cost of Windows, if you see
> what I mean?
I grabbed the following before Easter...
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/screenshots/dell-gives-choice.jpg
I believe the price was the same as that of Windows XP, but
I cannot remember for sure. Bear in mind that Red Hat's RHEL
is a commercial edition.
Dell is making progress. HP is making quicker progress
(laptops are SLED approved, soon to be preloaded with SLED
10 on an custom order basis). IBM is a true ally and there
are hundreds of shops out there that offer machines with
Linux pre-installed.
The world is changing. Windows has become so bad that even
Microsoft cannot force the OEM to hide alternatives. Not
even with kickbacks and complex contracts that prescribe
which icons you put on the customer's desktop. While vendors
want to sell high-end machines (culminating inn Vista's 'hog
factor'), customers want cheap, cheap, cheap. And stable,
and secure, and reliable, and versatile, and powerful. Just
give them GNU/Linux. Rest in peace, Windows. We will not be
missing you, but SPAM that will carry on arriving until the
old generation of computers is deceased will remind us of
Windows' death. Of course, it will take a couple of years...
Best wishes,
Roy
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