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DesktopLinux: Waiting for Dell
Mar 8, 2007, 01 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6342 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"In Samuel Becket's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Godot never arrives, and the play ends with our characters still waiting. I sometimes think Linux users are also stuck in a barren landscape endlessly waiting for Dell, HP, Lenovo, or another major vendor to finally deliver a mass-market Linux desktop.

"The major desktop players keep flirting with the Linux community, but then they never go all the way. Take, for instance, Lenovo. Last summer, Lenovo agreed to preload Novell Inc.'s SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation. ndscape endlessly waiting for Dell, HP, Lenovo, or another major vendor to finally deliver a mass-market Linux desktop..."

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Linux DevCenter: Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth(Mar 08, 2007)
Linux Journal: A Modest GNU/Linux Proposal for Michael Dell(Mar 05, 2007)
LinuxInsider: Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?(Mar 04, 2007)
Editor's Note: Blame Dell or Help Them?(Mar 02, 2007) http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8312248169.html


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Linux is NOT ready for the desktop. Plai ...   There must be a reason for it!   
Vi
Mar 8, 2007, 05:46:14
 
Contrary to the Troll (or maybe MS astro ...   Re: There must be a reason for it!   
chemicalscum
Mar 8, 2007, 13:10:48
 
This is nothing other than a chicken and ...   Pre-insalling Linux   
Ted Swart
Mar 8, 2007, 16:20:19
 
One of the techies here gave me a demo.  ...   I ran VISTA Ultimate this morning...   
GreyGeek
Mar 8, 2007, 18:14:32
 
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