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|=| DELL Laptops and Mandriva Linux?
Mandriva has announced "DELL Releases its First Linux Consumer
Product with Mandriva"[1], the DELL Latitude 110L will be
available with Mandriva pre-loaded. This press release is not
online anymore! A posting a InfoWorld[2] describes some more background
"This is really nothing new. Dell installs any distro or software that a
customer requires through our CFI (Custom Factory Integration) program.
This
is usually for larger customers with very specific needs rather than your
typical consumer. In this case, Dell won a bid with the French Ministry of
Education. Based on the needs of the end-user, Dell opted to leverage its
CFI
capabilities to offer French students the 'n-series' Latitude 110L notebook
with Mandriva Linux pre-installed. [So] the Latitude 110Ln with the
Mandriva
OS is limited to a French Ministry of Education program available only to
students. When Mandriva saw this they quickly put out a press release
without
Dell's authorization or knowledge which made it appear as if Dell was
pre-installing their OS on Dell systems [in general] rather than the more
accurate CFI story." LinuxToday[3] asked the DELL CEO: "Now that a
laptop with pre-installed Mandrake Linux is available in France, will
DELL follow up with Linux laptops in the US or other nations?" The
CEO Michael Dell denied this because "distributions of Linux are
too "alienated", from each other to make that work".
[1] http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2564
[2] http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2005/09/dell_and_mandri.html
[3] http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005093001826NWHWSW
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