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Where my hardware money goesWhere my hardware money goesPosted Mar 1, 2007 15:58 UTC (Thu) by thyrsus (subscriber, #21004)Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux
Mostly IBM, not because I buy Red Hat pre-installed, but because I *can* and therefore I have reasonable assurance that it will be possible to do it myself. Sun also gets some of my business for this reason. When a Lenovo executive made that spiteful remark about Linux support a few months back, I sent a memo to my boss saying we need to start looking for a new laptop and desktop vendor, perhap HP, since they have models that run Linux. Luckily, that Linux distancing was at most a trial balloon at Lenovo. If Dell gets serious about Linux certification, I'll give them a new look.
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Where my hardware money goes Posted Mar 1, 2007 16:31 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] Well, HP already sells Linux certified systems, including laptops. (They used to sell a Linux-installed laptop, but that model was discontinued, and of course you can get Linux pre-installed on HP server hardware, but I think that's also true for Dell?) I'm not sure what IBM has to do with any of this, beyond getting a license fee from Lenovo to let Lenovo put an "IBM" badge on some of their laptops.
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