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Feb 2000: CNN reports "Red Hat Linux 6.1 is now available on the Dell Inspiron 7500.... The Linux-enabled laptops will cost no more than their Windows 98 counterparts, according to a spokesperson for Dell....With the availability of Linux on its laptops, Dell is leading the pack in the deployment of Linux,

Have a Dell Linux Launch Page that lists Links to Linux Distro download sites.

It is easy to do, and costs Dell almost nothing.

The Dell Linux Launch Page would also promote on-sale Dell products for Linux (notebooks, PCs, printers, network cards, video cards, etc)
It's a market category as well as a Dell Linux branding strategy.

There is plenty of money to be made this way, all they need to do is get on the ball...

Dells Best Idea Storm Idea is found right HERE.

How about a suggestion that they don't censor ideas that they don't like?

http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/64277

Did Dell put the post back or did the accuser take Slashdot for a ride to get free publicity for his website?

If a lot of you vote for this suggestion, i wonder how long it would take to get deleted.

I'm calling Bullshit. Its still there About 2/3 of the way down the page. People really need to do just a little research before comming to these assumptions. It just got bumbed off the main page on the hacked down main page because they cant fit all of the comments there.

If there's censorship, why would the thread "Stop making excuses, and start paying attention. WE WANT LINUX!!!" still be live?

http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/64210/Ge t_Linux_certified_by_a_wellestablished_FOSS_compan y_whose_motives_are_clear

That is an awesome idea, so good in fact, that its bound to be deleted soon.

I have come to the conclusion that Dell cannot stop lying about the whole thing, so put up this idea an an alternative :

http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/63774/In stall_MORE_Advertising_Wares

http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/63705/De ll_should_stop_lying_about_preinstalled_Linux

OpenDell | linux http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/62705/DE LL_Linux_Distribution

:)

Surprising to me nobody suggested that one yet. It annoys the crap out of me every time I see our latest purchase from 2007. Optiplex computers together with shiny Ultrasharp displays. Connected analog because someone in purchasing forgot to add the PCI Riser Card together with the DVI Addin Card. His fault maybe but how comes DVI simply isn't standard? Make people pay for the adapter if they really want to screw their eyes by using a analog flatpanel display instead of one with dvi input. -> http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/62483/DV I_incl_DVID_for__everything__please - Vote Am I the only that notices a difference between analog and digital signal at 1280 * 1024?

Now, honestly....I know that this may not be the nicest thing, but the biggest complaint I hear and have myself is that dell hires techs that sometimes I really can't understand at ALL. Come on people, promote this idea, wouldn't you like to hear someone who spoke english as a first language? No offense meant here, but I would just like not to have to reconfirm my service tag 5 times until we go over the "b for bowling" "g for gorilla" etc.

Now, honestly....I know that this may not be the nicest thing, but the biggest complaint I hear and have myself is that dell hires techs that sometimes I really can't understand at ALL. Come on people, promote this idea, wouldn't you like to hear someone who spoke english as a first language? No offense meant here, but I would just like not to have to reconfirm my service tag 5 times until we go over the "b for bowling" "g for gorilla" etc.