[Leaplist] Fwd: [vox] [fwd] Alienware soliciting people's views about Linux on Alienware laptops

[Kyle Gonzales]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 23:20 -0400, ray wrote:
> David Harris wrote:
> >> > http://lists.leap-cf.org/mailman/listinfo/leaplist
> >> hate to be negative here, but meh, who cares.  Alienware = Dell and we
> >> know what Dell is doing with the requests of the public.
> >
> > Not offhand, what are they doing?  The only thing I found (via a quick
> > search, mind you ) was that Dell laptops with Linux cost more than
> > Dell laptops with M$.
>
> Dell is not going to be offering Linux on any hardware for SoHo use any 
> time soon.  Basically they are going to ignore the request of the public 
> "because it will cost them to much" to offer Linux as they do not have 
> the expertise to support it and have to higher 3rd party companies for 
> support.

Not being an apologist for Dell...

But anyone can buy desktops and laptops from Dell with FreeDOS on them,
and install Linux on them, with zero M$ taint.

You can also buy Dell workstations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installed, and the support for those systems will come from Dell support
staff.

Just wanting to straighten out the facts.
-- 
Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com>
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