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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (23014)	3/21/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Thure Meyer	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Dan, Sorry to use you as a pointer all the time, but did you check this out on CNET yet? --------------------------------------------- Dell preinstalling Linux on workstations By Michael Kanellos and Stephen Shankland Staff Writers, CNET News.com March 19, 1999, 11:55 a.m. PT Dell Computer began offering Red Hat Linux as a preinstalled option on its workstations today, the latest example of the growing popularity of the little OS that could. Dell began offering Red Hat this morning as an option on its Precision 410 and 610 workstations through its Web site. Linux costs an extra $20 over the price of a similarly configured Windows NT machine, and it comes with 90 days of phone or email technical support from LinuxCare. The new systems also mark the first time in years that Dell is selling a non-Microsoft desktop. The upstart operating system is taking the computing world by storm as big computer companies continue to beef up their support for the "open source" effort. Although Dell announced that it would begin to sell Red Hat's OS on its workstations and servers earlier this year, the way that Dell is promoting Red Hat on its site seems to go beyond the earlier commitments. In January, Dell said that it would devise optimized configurations of workstations and servers for Red Hat Linux and sell customers copies of the OS on request. In other words, Linux was not preinstalled without a customer request. ------------------- Another small break in the dike. Even though charging $20 more than NT for a free operating system is ludicrous, greedy (since they contributed nothing to Linux) and shows how much fear is still in the air. Thure

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