Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> 6 Places to Buy Pre-installed Linux Computers
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> | Gone are the days when the only source of linux distribution was the
> | web. There were always very few small-scale distributors who would sell
> | pre-installed linux desktop system, but the choices were few and the
> | hardware options were very limited. Thanks to Dell,
Eh? WTF?
Dell$ had nothing to do with it.
It was all Asus that did it and still doing it!!!
They are shipping some half million to one million Linux UMPCs a month.
And a million motherboards with Express Gate (Splash Top) every month.
Even if Dell$ and Ausus did not try, it is basically too late.
Nearly all factories in China are beginning to ship Linux huge quantities of
UMPCs for under $100.
> preinstalled desktop
> | linux market is now mainstream. Today, we will look at some of the
> | popular distributors/resellers, who are selling pre-installed linux
> | systems for home users (not servers).
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> http:/
www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/09/01/6-places-to-buy-pre-installed-linux-computers/
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> Recent:
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> Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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> | A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
> | competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I
> | ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
> |
> | Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly
> | have to go with that.
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> http://www.news.com
Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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> Related:
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> Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
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> http://news.com.com/Did+Microsoft+want+to+whack+Dell+over+its+Linu
+dealings/2100-1014_3-6153904.html
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> Dell's secret Linux fling
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/
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> Microsoft 'killed Dell Linux' - States
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/19
microsoft_killed_dell_linux_states/
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> | From: Joachim Kempin
> | Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 1996 9:43 AM
> | To: Bill Gates; Pete Higgings (Xenix); Nathan Myhrvold; Brad Silberberg
> | (Xenix); John Ludwig; Russel Siegeirman (Xenix); Steve Ballmer;
> | paulma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Subject: RE: AOL
> |
> | are you suggesting we should put them in our box? May be all of them?
> | Not a bad idea - but the OEMs might not be too hapy about it. They are
> | loosing their $$?
> | P they are not in compliance. Compaq
> | truely pisses me off.
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> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2455.pdf
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> Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorne
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> | Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
> | Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
> | a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
> | to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
> | and specifically Linux.
> | His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
> | in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
> | And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
> | OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
> | end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp
Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
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> Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
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> | They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
> | secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
> | contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
> | likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
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