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- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2gcauthon: You're completely wrong. Dell ships those systems with COMMERCIAL versions of Redhat Linux. The prices for an OEM copy of WinXP Pro and Redhat Enterprise Workstation are almost identical.
Try and keep up with the rest of us. Thanks. - hollidaydoc1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too much money for stripped down pc's.
- selphishnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It comes with Red Hat linux, for those of you who didn't notice. My java teacher really stresses using Red Hat (he wants to get certified) but I have never cared for it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dell is a fair-weather Linux distributor. If it looks like Linux might be gaining momentum, Dell jumps back on the bandwagon.
I swear to god, what Novell needs to do is nail down a couple of corporate customers who insist on Dell desktops and then put everyone (Dell, Novell, and customer) together in the same god damned building and make a Dell template for corporate Linux deployments.
This would be worth at least 10% of Novell's advertising budget, especially if everyone Blogs the hell out of it. - justicets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0About time
- v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0factory installed linux? from Dell? LOL
I wonder if it will have backdoors all ready to go, similar to how they setup windows... =p - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whoopdie do.
just more proof that microsoft makes up dells profit margins. - dieman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Its worse on the pricing with Universities and businesses with microsoft contracts. The N series computers are more expensive (!!) than windows equipped machines since they take off the windows license (you've already paid for it, basically, with the site license contract) so we generally don't buy N series machines for Linux desktops due to the price.
- AJRiddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very old, commercial version
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They've been offering Linux on their workstations for a long time now.
-undigg
-old - lerhaupt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they've been factory installing linux on workstations for probably around 7 years now ~ RH 6.1. way old.
- Zonkzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anyone here work in a place that uses these Dell linux boxes? I imagine the phone support would be absolute hell.
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http://CollegeCheapskate.com - gcauthon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/precn?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
or
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/precn_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
They are the same price as the versions that ship with Windows XP Professional. So either Windows is free now, or you're paying for it whether you want it or not. Hooray, Dell will let you buy Windows but will install Linux instead! Can we also pay for Adobe Acrobat and have GhostScript installed instead? If they offered that sweet deal then I would buy one. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my god, one of the reasons people prefer linux is because its FREE.What Dell should really do is sell computers without an OS, that would cut the price of dell machines by 1/2!
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They seem a tad overpriced. I figured the combination of Dell and Linux would produce rock-bottom prices.
- blakholephysics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah... Hear about this a couple months ago on digg.
- rusty_g, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1they have been for a while now..
- Prod_Deity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They've been doing this before Kevin Rose created Digg.
Thus it does classify as REALLY old news. No Digg. - leftfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old but still,
+digg
+1 for Dell - TuxFan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dell has been selling computers with Red Hat for awhile but only for businesses. The only problem is that Dell makes them. Best to build your own. If your a business, I hope you like 5 hour long calls to India.
- MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Too bad they don't offer Ubuntu, then it would be a little better. but still, Dell sucks.
- taswake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Expensive as well. :-(
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Enterprise customers who buy Dell workstations do so via Contract pricing, not what you see here.
Enterprise customers that intend to use Linux on these workstations purchase them WITH an XP license as Dell charges the same price. The purchasing guys won't listen to the linux fanboys say that they are pupating some blah, blah, blah. What they see is that when somebody wants to re-purpose said machine they off of Linux they have to buy an XP license. If you are an enterprise RedHat customer you pay for support for not the OS.
Thus, why the HELL would somebody pay as much for a PC without XP to get Linux pre-installed in an enterprise environment? Answer; they won't, and they don't.
Also, as mentioned about a million times by linux fanboys one can simply run XP in vmware if they "have" to run Windows programs. But. If you buy with Linux pre-installed you have to buy an XP license. Unless you're using software assurance then you have to license the friggin linux pc anyway.
Old news, good profit margin for Dell.
No Digg-e-doo - Svenson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OLD NEWS
- terrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Old news
- subaruwrt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yea old..
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