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The Agony and Ecstasy Of Becoming a Linux OEM

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-in-houses-always-staring dept.

jammag writes "An article at the site Datamation, entitled Becoming a Linux OEM: A Roadmap, talks about the challenges (and rewards) of selling hardware with Linux pre-installed — most likely a growth market in the years ahead. The interesting part is the description of how some smaller Linux OEMs have made it. The bottom line: surviving as a Linux OEM requires far more than making it as a Windows OEM. In particular, you have to make the systems idiot-proof for users who don't care a whit about what OS they're using."

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  1. If there's ecstasy in becoming a Linux OEM... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...then you've already failed at life.

  2. Re:most people just want what works by Selfbain · · Score: 5, Funny

    And yet they get windows... funny how that works.

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    Well, it has never been successfully tested.
  3. Re:Zonk? Still Around, Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I say shut down the entire site and hand the domain over to its rightful owners at SCO.