I agree it is great that Compaq and others are pre-installing RedHat. This fact alone will mean that just about any distribution (modern updated one) will run on Compaq hardware. Hopefully in the near future we will have a choice of dists:-)
I can see why Compaq went with RH for their Alpha CPUs. But why does Dell and the others? Not to start a flame war, but it sure would be nice to have the option of Caldera or RedHat. Yes RedHat has the name recognition, but no wonder with all these announcements. If these announcements included Caldera or another distribution I would bet they would have just as much 'name' as RedHat.
With RedHat, Caldera, and others going IPO there is some money to be made with linux. With Corel porting many of their fine applications to Linux, I wonder if/when we will get Intuit to convert Quicken to Linux? This is the last Windows app I use.
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I agree it is great that Compaq and others are pre-installing RedHat. This fact alone will mean that just about any distribution (modern updated one) will run on Compaq hardware. Hopefully in the near future we will have a choice of dists :-)
I can see why Compaq went with RH for their Alpha CPUs. But why does Dell and the others? Not to start a flame war, but it sure would be nice to have the option of Caldera or RedHat. Yes RedHat has the name recognition, but no wonder with all these announcements. If these announcements included Caldera or another distribution I would bet they would have just as much 'name' as RedHat.
I like choice, do you?
With RedHat, Caldera, and others going IPO there is some money to be made with linux. With Corel porting many of their fine applications to Linux, I wonder if/when we will get Intuit to convert Quicken to Linux? This is the last Windows app I use.