I think Asus is in bed with Microsoft. Well, DELL isn't infected yet. Not everyone gets that STD called Windows. Can't get a solid state device for a DELL Inspiron Mini 10 with Ubuntu pre installed, but at least I don't have to pay for and manually get rid of a copy of Windows. Ironically, and this is nonsense, the Windows version has the 32 Gig SSD as an upgrade option. Sounds like politics to me. Linux supports SSDs just as well as Windows does. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that Dell is trying to make sure that their Linux offerings have fewer features and are less attractive than their Windows machines. Dell should get serious and offer Linux pre installed on ALL of their product lines.
Once the salesman figured out that indeed there is a Linux pre installed DELL, it wasn't much trouble to get an order ringed up. Around the 26th, it should arrive. Aside from not having an SSD, this DELL mini Inspiron 10 should work just fine for my nephew. I hope the salesman goes up the chain to suggest that the no SSD option on Linux laptops be rectified. Linux people are not second class citizens and should not have second class options. I would also like to see more variety than simply Ubuntu or Windows on DELL systems. What about Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etcetera? I realize that DELL doesn't want to embrace too many operating systems, but most serious Linux people use more than just Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
