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Pre-installed community based LINUX

190 points posted to Linux by jbaronh 02/21/07

I think Dell should follow the same model as Apple. Emphasize design and ease of use of their hardware. Integrate said hardware with a pre-installed community based LINUX distribution such as UBUNTU, OPENSUSE or FEDORA with drivers for all Dell hardware and give the user the opportunity of buying either Win4Lin or VMWARE for Linux with Microsoft VISTA or XP. Dell could even develop their version of a community based distribution a bit like apple does for OSX and Darwin.

cyber_rigger
02/28/07
Companies selling preinstalled Linux (unlike

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