[SATLUG] Dell Linux Machines Have Arrived

Alex Bartonek bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com
Fri May 25 10:40:27 CDT 2007


I was a little surprised to see a company like Dell
offer Linux ready machines.  I dont know what is
taking the big companies so long anyway.. There is
money to be made in the Linux industry.

-Alex

--- Jonathan Hull <masterr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dell has begun shipping some of their machines (3 at
> this time) with Linux
> preloaded. They went with Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 as the
> Distro.
> 
> The systems come with full hardware support and
> warranty like the Windows
> machines, and they appear to be slightly cheaper
> than the Windows equivalent
> machines (that's more than you can say about the old
> FreeDOS offerings).
> 
> http://www.dell.com/open/
> 
> Props to Dell for standing up to the Microsoft BS.
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