Subject: Dell ships PCs, Servers with Linux pre-installed
James Love (love@cptech.org)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 15:42:07 -0400
Message-Id: <35F5888F.CA809BDC@cptech.org> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 15:42:07 -0400 From: James Love <love@cptech.org> To: Roundtable <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Dell ships PCs, Servers with Linux pre-installed
Well, a little progress from Dell. But according
to this story, unless you order lots, they charge $250
extra for a free OS.
jamie
-- James Love, Consumer Project on Technology P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 202.387.8030; f 202.234.5176 http://www.cptech.org/, mailto:love@cptech.org--------------------
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980908c.html
Inter@ctive WeekSeptember 8, 1998 Dell Ships PCs, Servers With Linux
By Connie Guglielmo 11:00 AM EDT
Although there's no mention of the Linux operating system anywhere on its World Wide Web storefront, leading PC maker Dell Computer Corp. acknowledged last week it has been delivering servers with the popular freeware software factory-installed to corporate customers over the past year as part of a recently formalized program that extends its long-standing tradition of offering build-to-order systems.
Dell said it will factory-install the Unix-based operating system on PC systems for customers who purchase a minimum of 50 machines per quarter, Jim Mazzola, a spokesman at Dell's enterprise systems group, said last week. There's no minimum on the server side, but customers who want a single server with Linux, or any other nonsupported OS or custom software factory-installed, will be charged an additional $250 set-up fee for the server, Mazzola added.
While more than 46 hardware resellers in 10 countries offer desktop, laptop and server systems equipped with the free operating system, which was created in 1991 by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, Dell apparently becomes the first major PC maker to ship systems with Linux preinstalled.
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