At the Dell stand at LinuxWorld Expo I asked about Dell's opinion and approach to Linux. According to the guy on the stand, about 20% of the machines that Dell sell include Linux, and most of those are pre-installed. <\/p>\n
That's an interesting statistic, but it is tempered somewhat by the fact that the figure is limited to servers, it doesn't cover all machines. As it happens, Dell don't sell a desktop (to my knowledge, at least) with Linux on it, pre-installed or otherwise. Workstations - i.e. more powerful desktops that cost more - yes, desktops, no. <\/p>\n
However, they do supply PCs with FreeDOS in the box, and nothing installed on the hard drive<\/a>. I haven't experienced the same problem mentioned by The Register<\/a>. In fact, clicking on the link in the article I could quite happily find FreeDOS machines. Not the 510n, but a 515n. Given the speed with which machines are replaced today a minor digit change doesn't surprise me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the Dell stand at LinuxWorld Expo I asked about Dell’s opinion and approach to Linux. According to the guy on the stand, about 20% of the machines that Dell sell include Linux, and most of those are pre-installed. <\/p>\n That’s an interesting statistic, but it is tempered somewhat by the fact that the figure is limited to servers, it doesn’t cover all machines. As it happens, Dell don’t sell a desktop (to my knowledge, at least) with Linux on it, pre-installed or otherwise. Workstations – i.e. more powerful desktops that cost more – yes, desktops, no. <\/p>\n However, they do supply PCs with FreeDOS in the box, and nothing installed on the hard drive<\/a>. I haven’t experienced the same problem mentioned by The Register<\/a>. In fact, clicking on the link in the article I could quite happily find FreeDOS machines. Not the 510n, but a 515n. Given the speed with which machines are replaced today a minor digit change doesn’t surprise me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}