|From: Fred A. Miller |Subject: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!! | |When Michael Dell took back the reins of he company he |founded, one of the first things he did was to launch the |feedback site Dell Idea Storm. |Following up on the recent Slashdot discussion of the early |results of this experiment - an overwhelming expressed desire |for pre-loaded Linux - Dell reports on what it plans to do |with this feedback. Quoting: "[W]e are working with Novell to |certify our corporate client products for Linux, including our |OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision |workstations. [On the question of which distro to choose:] |"[T]here is no single customer preference for a distribution |of Linux... |We want users to have the opportunity to help define the |market for Linux on desktop and notebook systems. In addition |to working with Novell, we are also working with other |distributors and evaluating the possibility of additional |certifications across our product line." Dell uses to ship boxes preinstalled with RedHat. License and everything. The problem where they just cloned hd images. So in most cases it just coredumped when you tried to boot it because hardware were to new or not compliant. Not even plain servers worked. Mostly because they use the cheapest of the cheapest components, without assuring linux compliance. -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org