Thank you ;-) i asked for a guy who was lookling a laptop with Suse or would go to Os x, i was not able to answer him (i'm kindof 'against' laptops and can't tell a lot about them). Well, in fact i've got this impression that apart from a few geeks that are into computers in their jobs or because they're curious enough people just do not care about the motor inside their pc, they just look for something that works. I visited friends with windows xp the other day, i was amazed they were still using internet explorer default version, and had pop ups each 5 minutes on their screen ! , it was no problem for them : they're just used to it ! So, it's our "job" to show them there is an alternative. I'm convinced Suse it's one of the best distro around , but it's so unknown it's a pity. This underunlines a vast margin of progress, specifically in the communication field in the openSuse/free software realm. Fabrice Andrew Wafaa a écrit :
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:16:07 +0100 manchette
wrote: Is there a list of sites (or the ones you know of) where it is possible to buy desktop or laptop pcs with Suse as default ? This could be a good way to attract users to Suse. Thanks ;=) Fabrice
Fabrice,
Almost all of the SUSE pre-loads are SLED, multiple reasons for this which hopefully someone in the know in Novell can expand on. I think it comes down to support (as in telephone/e-mail/etc) and also hardware binary drivers.
I've only seen Shuttle provide openSUSE with *some* of their PCs [0]. Unfortunately Ubuntu had managed to create such a hysteria around their distro that vendors believed the hype (and if I was synical, which I am sometimes, I'd say they also took a kickback too ;) ).
Regards,
Andy
[0] - http://eu.shuttle.com/en/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-53/140_read-14333/
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