26 Jun 2007
No that Dell has started selling Linux desktop and laptop computers, the company is trying its hardest to prevent businesses from buying any of them.
At least that was what a user by the name of Cosborn72 reported on an Ubuntu user forum. As a small business, he tried calling his regular Dell contact. But the small business section doesn't offer any Linux desktops and forced him to visit the "home and home office" department instead.
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<p>Dell and HP are the best laptop brands out there, they have been in the game for quite sometime now and getting big sales is beneficiary to the company, dell has installed linux on their laptops to prevent other business to buy any of those products</p>
Posted by: linux photoshop 04 Aug 2007