On Tuesday 08 July 2003 08:58 am, Bryan Murdock wrote: > Makes me proud to work for HP: > > "The news marks the first time that an major hardware vendor has made > Linux available on a desktop PC in the United States since Dell carried > Red Hat Linux on its workstations and servers beginning in 1999." > > http://features.linuxtoday.com/news/2003070202226NWDPHW
Even if they do offer it, to sell it they need to promote it. If they don't promote it, it'll end up like it did with Walmart. Last I heard, Walmart stopped selling PCs with Mandrake and Lindows. And no one but Linux users knew they sold it in the first place. I once talked to the BYU Bookstore, Computer section and asked them why they didn't have Linux. They said it didn't sell so they stopped selling it. Then I asked if they promoted it as much as they did Windows, and they guy looked at the floor and said... "well.... no...." -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
