Bob, It appears that they charge only charge $119.00 for Linux preinstalled which is more then NT, but you pay for NT as well in the price of the machine. The extra cost only comes when you what to buy their support plan. I am " assuming " that the $20.00 fee is cause they have somebody sitting there installing it...or something stupid like that..heheheh laters, Bob Easton wrote:
On 23 Mar 99, at 21:43, Fred A. Miller wrote:
<A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/delllinux.html"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/delllinux.html</A">http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/delllinux.html</A</A>> --
Quoting from that article (about Dell preloading Linux): "In order to get Linux preinstalled on their machines, users must foot a $20 fee (which is $20 more than a system with Windows NT preinstalled)." Is this for real? They expect someone to pay, in effect, close to $200 for Linux? Maybe the author misspoke. -Bob
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