Dell start selling PC's with Linux

Well, starting this morning, DELL are starting to sell Linux pre-installed on selected workstations, dell asks for additional 99$ for the installation. Full report from News.com is here. Speaking of pre-installing, IBM just told Info-world reporters that they will keep selling Linux servers, but they will "wait-and-see" about selling Workstation pre-installed with Linux. Am I the only one who thinks that IBM need to learn about selling from Dell?

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$99? More like $1000!!!!

[miniver]

I decided to browse on down to Dell and price a Linux workstation, just to see that $20 difference. Since Windows NT costs so much more than Red Hat Linux, I wanted to see where the $20 came from.

For starters, the Linux version is sold on a different price page than the Windows 9X/NT version, and has *much* fewer options -- no dual processor options, no sound card options, misc other options missing. The options for the two pages are in different sequences, making comparison much harder too.

After grumbling a bit, I pulled up 2 browser windows, and side-by-side matched options for the following configuration:

Precision 410 MiniTower, Pentium II/450, 128mb ECC RAM, (1) 9gb SCSI HD, 21" UltraScan 1600HS monitor, Diamond Permedia 2 AGP graphics card, IOMEGA ATAPI Zip drive

The price for Windows NT: $3891

The price for Linux: $4809

What's wrong with this picture???

No large websites on linux?!

[merentha]

From DejaNews(obviously biased)website:
Deja News is one of the top destination sites on the Web, with some four to five million unique users a month who generate more than 125+ million pageviews monthly.

Which would be about 3 million hits/day. Check netcraft, and you find - Linux/Apache.

They claim to process over a million articles a day as well. And it's a remarkably responsive site.