James Knott wrote: > Actually, there are many vendors who will sell without Windows or with > Linux installed. For example, there's one company, located near my > home, that sells computers loaded with Linux or no OS, for less than the > same system with Windows.
Indeed. Since we're "Microsoft Gold Partners" at work, we have no need to buy operating systems again when we purchase computers. (Our licensing includes everything we need from them.) We just bought a buttload of new HP development machines that came directly from HP with Linux (disguised as FreeDOS) on them, at a lower cost than if they'd come with Windows installed. The only annoying issue was that since they didn't have Windows on them, they didn't have any Windows DRIVERS on them either. I needed to download all of those from HP and figure out what to install on a system. Once I got it working, we ghosted it and built the rest of the machines from that image. I'd be willing to bet that the eventual move to Vista will make this sort of purchase even more common. We could just as easily have installed Linux on them instead of XP-Pro (but we create Windows-based commercial software). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
