[N3WBI3]

Which Distro does Dell use?

What was the nationality of that companies founder?

Where is that company located?

BTW Welcome back, I hope days spent in the trolls corner taught you a little civility..

[Egon]

Ah, what a relief. I see "Big Bird" is back.

As a fan of both operating systems, I was just starting to enjoy the comparisons again, sans the Microsoft boot-licking rhetoric.

Sigh. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.

[Golden Eagle]

Which Distro does Dell use? What was the nationality of that companies founder?

If you're referring to Bob Young (the founder of Red Hat), he's not from the USA. And surely you aren't referring to Suse, which comes from Germany.

[bigdcaldavis]

I've been using Linux since summer 2004...started with Linspire, migrated to Xandros. I have Xandros 3 Business Edition with StarOffice8 included with the OS.

Unfortunately, I read some disturbing rumors that Xandros 4 will have some kind of "product activation" feature similar to the Windows XP product activation feature (which basically makes WinXP crippleware unless your product key is ok'd by MS). If that rumor proves to be true, I will either just stick with Xandros 3 Business or move to Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu, but I have had trouble getting my NetZero dial-up software to work on there. I have NetZero installed here on Xandros (NetZero advertised the software to be for Linspire, but it should work with any Debian-based OS since the NetZero software comes in the .deb file format).

I think eventually we're heading for a time where people who run DRM-compliant OSes will be looked at favorably by the computer bigwigs and the government, while people who run non-DRM-compliant OSes will probably be taxed, tracked, and traced...and I figure non-DRM-compliant OSes will not be allowed to connect to the Internet or Internet2.