That means dell is socialist.
We have some dell servers that shipped with Red Hat, and we have converted many of our old Novell servers to openbsd, freebsd and Fedora.
Novell has a decent desktop linux...might give it a try in userland and see how it works out.
Sure, it's is cheaper to sell it that way and you can put your own operating system on instead.
I use both Redhat and a variety of Windows versions as do many client sites. I don't have a dog in the fight except that I don't understand why pro-Linux/anti-Windows users are usually so militant and want one monoculture replaced by another (differing versions of Linux notwithstanding).
Here's one of the only gripes I have with the Linux crowd: in their zeal to promote open source and/or destroy Microsoft, the urge to include condescending 'zingers' in almost every piece of advice seems irresistible. If they aren't stated openly, they are certainly implied.
Being an advocate and an enthusiastic user is fine but constantly slamming MS, its products and its user base will continue to fail to win friends and influence people.
Some downloadable books in HTML, mags, paper books. The downloadables are easily downloadable, easily browsable and bookmarkable:
First on the list:
Tux magazine. www.tuxmagazine.com. Breezy, chatty, simple to read in pdf format. You can d/l the archives. A definite first read and very informative.
The Linux Cookbook Click format if you can find an archive(use google) and print format (on amazon). An OReilly Book
Moving to the Linux Business Desktop at amazon (or any bookstore)
I heard one guy say that this free online course was worth his time. It is a downloadable (pdf or html) course on the fundamentals of linux.
The day Dell actually SELLS and PROMOTES machines with AMD processors or Linux O/S, I'll probably faint.
Feh!
Walmart.com has been shipping Microtel boxes with Linux for years. I got mine for $199. They are up to $219 now.
And here's the latest on this BS, from the original BS'er himself. Seems he's swallowed his foot, again, and wouldn't you know it, it's all somehow Microsoft's fault. Pathetic, but typical...
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7763046071.html
"Last Thursday, when I wrote about Dell's new Linux desktop, was one of the most frustrating days of my professional life. My eWEEK colleague John Spooner and I tried our best to get Dell to confess that they really had released an honest-to-God Linux desktop. But Dell simply wouldn't do it."
Dell...from what I've seen...it's not a machine I would recommend to anyone any more..and that goes for LINOX..is that the vacuum cleaner?
Linux is gaining some ground. I think I read somewhere that HP is shipping computers to South Africa with Linspire Five-0 pre-installed.
I bought a new Wintergreen desktop 1 1/2 weeks ago. It came with a 2.4GHz Celeron D, 256MB RAM (I just bought 512MB to add to it), a 40GB HDD, a CD-RW, and Linspire Five-0. The modem and sound work out of the box, but the sound card was too quiet for me, so I gutted the Riptide HCF modem from my old 400MHz desktop and added it to the new Wintergreen PC, but since there are now HCF/Riptide drivers compatible with the 2.6 kernels, I have to use Linspire 4.5 (it uses the 2.4.24 kernel).
The new Wintergreen PC set me back only $250, and the RAM I bought today was $50.