found that dell start to sell laptop with linux pre-installed http://www1.ap.dell.com/sg/en/business/laptop-vostro-1088-pd/fs.aspx?refid=laptop-vostro-1088-pd&s=bsd&cs=sgbsd1
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Rashif Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Slugnet] buy laptop with linux pre-installed > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvain Bougerel <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 10:17 pm > Subject: Re: [Slugnet] buy laptop with linux pre-installed > > > The only 2 laptops I ever managed to get pre-installed with linux are the > EeePC. In SG, I never saw anything else sold with Linux. > You got to understand the distributors too... I mean the level of > penetration of Linux is so low in Singapore... Back when I was at NUS, even > in the school of computing, I don't remember having met a guy actually using > it. Sad. > Well that's not gonna help you... but I understand your frustration. > Cheers, Happy good friday. I've been travelling the entire last few months, and was surprised to see Linux having a really big footprint in the South Asian market. I saw a number of pamphlets with lines like: "Linux Ubuntu 8.10" And those were not ads for some local brand or patched-up systems, but rather that of Dell. I think vendors themselves actually advise distributors on this, because Linux would be most needed in developing countries where piracy is rampant. In a country like ours, where more people can and will buy original, it doesn't make sense to them to offer Linux as part of a product, since they don't know what Free Software means other than "free". -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
