Mac Clone Maker Psystar Starts Shipping Computers
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| Ubuntu is free. Vista or XP costs an extra $150, while Leopard costs an
| additional $155, according to Psystar's Web site.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401062
It's not just a question of price though. Ubuntu also comes with more software,
which is Free (libre).
Recent:
Linux faithful see ray of light shining on client OS
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| “There is a huge market of people who can start out with Linux [and you don’t
| have to try] to get them to switch from Windows,” says John Hull, manager of
| the Linux engineering team at Dell. “And a lot of the opportunity is going to
| be in developing markets.”
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/041008-linux.html
Related:
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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