Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:56:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Dell announces the models for Ubuntu
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>>| We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS
>>| 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24.
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>> http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2007/05/18/dell-announces-the-models-for-ubuntu/
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> Well, it's put up or shutup time for the Linux faithful. You should all
> run out and buy 10 computers from Dell with Linux.
>
Why? Dell's not serious about Linux. If they were, you'd see it front
and center on their home page. They're cowards just like the rest
of the big computer makers. Toying with Linux in the shadows, wishing
Microsoft were gone, but not having the balls to take any risk.
Dell's not alone in their cowardice. My toshiba laptop shipped
with a hidden Linux partition, from which its "instant-on" DVD
player runs. Of course the main system was XP Home, and the
media-card reader was not Linux-compatible. Fine. I saved
the pass-along pocket change it would have cost Toshiba to
include a compatible device, and handed over $29 to a third
party for a USB media reader which of course works with Linux.
Toshiba didn't want any more of my money, apparently.
> Dell will need to see strong demand, or these may be the last models.
Who cares. Dell proprietizes their hardware. I have no use for them.
I hope they go under. Vista's going to bury them along with half
the industry, but Dell deserves to crumble for their *own* misdeeds.
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