Dell to sell Linux PCs

[BRUCE STANLEY]

Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote: Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:

> PCWorld are running some weird proprietary crap on that server, that
> seems to be preventing standards compliant browsers going straight to
> the article page. You need to actually click on a link on that site
> first, then paste the link in the URI box to get to the original article.

Dunno what they have done, but this seems to work properly

http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129363/printable.html

> Anyway, yeah the whole DellIdeaStorm phenomenon has been quite a
> roller-coaster ride, and it's actually looks like Dell might really be
> going for it this time ... again ... maybe.

I bought Dells in the past due to their being the sole source for really 
hi res screens on laptops.  But that seems to have changed and so have 
my buying habits.

I didn't read in the article anything about the price of Windows getting 
allowed off the price of the box.  Revealing the OS as a cost, putting a 
figure on it and putting a radiobutton next to it allowing to choose 
Linux instead and save that money would be a momentous change that would 
have major ramifications in uptake.

-Andy

 HugH?

If you go out to the Dell Website and select  the "Dell Workstations"
option, you will see that you can select Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4
for your operating system.

If you click on a Windows option for the same configuration,
you will see that the starting priced for any version of windows
is higher than the starting price for Linux.
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