[Eug-lug] Looks like Dell is going to start pre-installing Linux

[Ben Barrett]

Here, here!
Pressure on the supply chain has been good for linux -- even the linuxbios
project,
which started down at Los Alamos (a visiting EUGLUG speaker represented that
as well as their clusterings a few+ years back)... by the same token,
though, I
also enjoy seeing traces of the push from the bottom, so to speak, where the
engineers building devices/components are using many free tools, if nothing
more than to test their products -- that, plus a strong (albeit small and
growing)
DIY crowd, urged toward popularity by MAKE and the like, are helping the
bottom meet the top... these almost diametrically-opposed forces meet in
so many creative ways.  Yeah, "you can run linux on it" now, but what's
even cooler is that linux (and bsd, open source, anon) does so many useful
things!

ben


On 2/26/07, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
>
> silver wrote:
> [cut]
> > However if PC vendors have the courage and do decide take the plunge
> then
> > the question is, which Linux distros/builds and  hardware models (and
> device
> > drivers) should the various PC vendors support/certify? I'm not sure how
> the
> > "certification" process works now, or what different levels of
> certification
> > are now or should be available, but I suspect certification is not a
> cheap
> > undertaking/proposition. Maybe it is something which only larger
> enterprises
> > can afford or be willing to pay for? Or is there a level of
> certification
> > that can be afforded to end-consumers and small-businesses too?
>
> The most sensible way for Dell to approach this is the require
> certification from their component vendors.  Doing the certs
> themselves would be too expensive.  It would also leave them
> exposed when their vendors made changes to their product, something
> companies do all the time to save money.  But if the vendor
> is responsible for certs, then they have to recertify when
> they make a revision.
>
> All of this will be excellent for us since it means more
> vendors will feel pressure to be Linux compatible and certify
> that they are.
> --
> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
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