In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:35:08 +0100
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> __/ [ Nick Ballard ] on Wednesday 28 March 2007 04:37 \__
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>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:45:13 -0700, flyer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dell may have sold Win on their machines but they didn't sell their soul
>>> to do it (I hope). They will have to VERY carefully extract themselves
>>> from the Redmond sludge pit though.
>>>
>>> Novell, in an insane death wish mode, sold it's soul to the MS Devil and
>>> will die or just become another unimportant department within MS, and
>>> subject to MS whims.
>>
>>
>> I can't figure out if Dell is just buying time by dangling the Linux
>> carrot in front of prospective customers, or if they really are on to
>> something brilliant. Hopefully it will be the latter.
>
>
> Some would say that they want discounts from Microsoft, but a message that I
> saw this morning (TuxMachines, probably from a Dell employee although it's
> not confirmed) makes it seem inevitable. Dell is currently determined to
> offer Linux. The question is /which distro/. Also, I wonder what the price
> will be and whether it'll be available outside the US (hmm... I should say
> "would", not "will").
Eh? High-end Dell desktops already offer RedHat
Enterprise. The Precision 690n in particular offers
"Red hat Enterprise Linux WS v4 for EMT64 64bit system".
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/precn_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
They're a little hard to find -- in my case I went down
Small Business, then Open Source Desktops, after drawing
a blank on the Home and Home Office section. But they've
been offering RHE WS for awhile now.
The usual Dellisms, I guess. One hopes that when they do
make a splash that they do so with some panache; they're
slick enough otherwise.
And yes, "Dell recommends Windows Vista(tm) Business".
But only for businesses; on the Home and Home Office
page they recommend Home Premium.
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