RE: [MLUG] Dell Open-Source Notebooks

["Davis, Jared Scott" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This was on digg a couple days ago:
http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS8382062536.html

Thanks,
 
Jared Davis
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMAIL:PROTECTED [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryan woodsmall
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 2:52 PM
To: MLUG Members
Subject: Re: [MLUG] Dell Open-Source Notebooks

Because you don't have to pay the "Microsoft Tax."  It's Dell's way  
of acknowledging that not everyone wants Windows without violating  
Microsoft's terms - without which, they'd get fewer discounts on  
volume licensing of Windows.

You wipe the hard drive and install Linux.  That's what you'd do anyway.

   ryan woodsmall
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On Feb 23, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> Dell is selling these now:
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries_nb
>
> But they come with "FreeDOS" which is, what exactly?  So I look it  
> up and see that it is MS-DOS compatible.  No one wants that!  Maybe  
> they have agreements with Microsoft that prevented them from  
> selling Notebooks with Linux on them.
>
> What we really need are Linux drivers for the notebooks.  Right?  I  
> can't see how FreeDOS helps us.
>
> Mike

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