[luau] News: Why Linux-loaded laptops have sold poorly

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People that work with Unix ought to install linux on their laptops, and they
often can buy quite expensive laptops.  I think it's more that IBM doesn't
really need to support linux, their machines will still run linux.  I also
think that IBM is about to make a major change in this area, such as sharing
space with Red Hat.  That's what I'd like to see, is Red Hat sell ThinkPads
and other hardware directly, then they could take the benefit from
supporting that kind of installation.  A hardware company doesn't really
want to have to support different OSes, even if they want more than one to
run on their hardware.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: [luau] News: Why Linux-loaded laptops have sold poorly


> This article has a good explanation as to why IBM dropped Linux laptops.
It
> is the simple fact that Linux users want to save money, and IBM laptops
are
> NOT cheap.  This also explains why Wal Mart is making all this good press
> with Microtel barebones, Lindows or Mandrake machines.
>
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/21/048251.shtml?tid=7
>
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