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Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« on: March 29, 2007, 07:32:31 AM » |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506027.stmNice. The trickle becomes a flow. Flood to follow? I give Microsoft a decade on top, max, unless they cop on. Remember Big Blue on the desktop? Some of you are too young but I distinctly remember old timers laughing off Microsoft as harmless. The circle of life.
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 10:55:51 AM » |
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Cool. I actually thought it would have happened sooner. Glad to see it.
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2007, 12:51:22 PM » |
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wonder how much less per machine they will charge?
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Uisce Beatha
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2007, 01:41:48 PM » |
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wonder how much less per machine they will charge? Good question. Should be worth more really even though costs would be less. Guess it depends on the bundle. |
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2007, 01:48:23 PM » |
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That is interesting, and about time, too!
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2007, 03:40:29 PM » |
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Cool.
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2007, 10:04:21 AM » |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506027.stmNice. The trickle becomes a flow. Flood to follow? I give Microsoft a decade on top, max, unless they cop on. Remember Big Blue on the desktop? Some of you are too young but I distinctly remember old timers laughing off Microsoft as harmless. The circle of life. LOL The news story in that link shows a picture of Larry Ellison, who'd give up his first-born to be Bill Gates. |
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Re: Dell to deliver Linux preinstalled on the desktop
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2007, 04:51:50 PM » |
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Larry Ellison was a metro-****ual fifteen years before anyone else.
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