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Great, confirmed individuals spell a growing number
of people seeking alternatives through a major OEM versus the smaller OEMS and boutiques that have offered Linux exclusively for a number of years. It's not millions or billions, but it's the sheer number of recent requests plus the years of requests that may get Dell of it's N-series buried in the wasteland of small business pages to offer up one or more distros for sale and service. It can't be any worse of an outing than going Vista or Mac.
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Well, certification for Linux is better than nothing, but, we would like to  DonnieBoy | 02/26/07
LSB be damned.  Suicida| | 02/26/07
For new hardware, or low volume hardware such as I/O cards, it will NOT be  DonnieBoy | 02/26/07
Kernl issues  Suicida| | 02/26/07
But, that will just force people to Windows for low volume hardware such as  DonnieBoy | 02/27/07
The beauty of modules  Suicida| | 02/27/07
That does NOT help. The modules for a different kernel, are NOT necessarily  DonnieBoy | 02/28/07
Drivers don't belong in the kernel  RichmondGiant | 03/02/07
Dell takes small steps toward Linux  Loverock Davidson | 02/26/07
Dell wakes up.  Suicida| | 02/26/07
Servers come bare-bones,,,  Confused by religion | 02/26/07
Because he didn't have the option  Linux User 147560 | 02/26/07
A Monopoly? Nooo cries Gates and Microsoft!  nomorems | 02/26/07
On Servers  voska | 02/26/07
Then you have never bought a server...  Confused by religion | 02/26/07
Didnt have much of a choice.  Suicida| | 02/26/07
Such as.... ?  nikoli | 02/26/07
MYTH-TV  voska | 02/26/07
Bingo!  Sabz5150 | 02/27/07
For starters  Suicida| | 02/26/07
What can linux actually do that windows cannot...  mrlinux | 02/27/07
Dell knows the truth  Loverock Davidson | 02/27/07
Ok  zkiwi | 02/27/07
Ok, so...  zkiwi | 02/26/07
Probably Works For The Gov  nikoli | 02/26/07
Exactly  Loverock Davidson | 02/26/07
Since you say that  Suicida| | 02/26/07
83,000 in a week  zkiwi | 02/26/07
Well of all the Ideas submitted to Dell this  mrlinux | 02/27/07
Uh. Oh come ONnnnnn  D. T. Schmitz | 02/26/07
Microsoft Windows or Novell's Suse Linux,  j.dupont | 02/26/07
Indeed...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/26/07
patents in the way?  RichmondGiant | 03/02/07
anti-competative practises  sj_z | 02/27/07
I gave up on Dell just last week...  mathandmetal | 02/26/07
Great, confirmed individuals spell a growing number  Boot_Agnostic | 02/27/07
This isnt new for Dell  mrlinux | 02/27/07
They just won't listen...  devlin_X | 03/01/07
Dell & Linux  connie3190 | 03/02/07
IdeaStorm in NOT representative of Customer Base  PabloArriola@... | 03/02/07
Want a Dell with Red Hat? Go to Dell  frank_s | 03/02/07
Give ACER A Look...  chas_2 | 03/02/07
Give ACER A Look...  chas_2 | 03/02/07
Mike Cox didn't post?  nix_hed | 03/03/07

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