Dell To Linux Users — Not So Fast

PetManimal writes to tell us that after all the hubbub over Dell's note about manufacturing Linux-friendly Dells and choosing distros, the company is now telling users not to expect factory-installed Linux laptops and desktops anytime soon. According to the article, Dell says that lining up certification, support, and training will 'take a lot of work.' "The company said today that the note was just about certifying the hardware for being ready to work with Novell SUSE Linux, not an announcement that the computers would be loaded and sold with the operating system in the near future..."

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Oh, that's true.

[Erris]

There isn't a shop, restaurant, bank, professional office, hospital, school, library or public facility of any kind within twenty miles of here that isn't running a Windows OS on a Dell PC.

Sure, there's been a boom ... and the bust is going to be hard. The vast majority of users are fed up because M$ still does not work. They have spent the big bucks on a big brand name and It's still just as slow and buggy as it was in 1994. Then, Michael Dell tells them that 1/4 is controlled by a botnet. The future looks even worse because the new M$ OS won't work well on 94% of them. Hell, gnusense would do better than that and more established distros will work on better than 90%. With DRM, the expensive new machines may never work and they will always suck. The fanboys have bought their little Vista boxes and it's a letdown, now comes the big sales bust. Vendors who stick with M$ are going to fall flat on their faces.

Enter the Penguin. All the shiny new applications are already there and they take far fewer resources. Secure, stable, trustable and fun - free software has it all right now. All the bullies have is threats, restrictions and stuff that does not work.