On Sunday, 25 Sep 2005 07:21, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > They're doing the right thing. > Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops > because most would have their own distinguished choice, it's better to ship > a bare bone OS to lower the price and leave it up to the user to choose > whatever s/he wants.
When they are shipping a default stuff anyway, what stops them from installing a fully functioning Free linux distro? We have plently of such options - Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu. The cost should remain the same, and this is precisely been done by other laptop/desktop vendors who are shipping with Linux. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
