Dell may join HP in Linux laptop drive (News.com)
Dell may join HP in Linux laptop drive (News.com)
Posted May 24, 2003 4:21 UTC (Sat) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)In reply to: Dell may join HP in Linux laptop drive (News.com) by danny
Parent article: Dell may join HP in Linux laptop drive (News.com)
The notebook does not have floppy or cd-rom, so it would rather difficult to install any OS on it if there is nothing pre-installed. You may need to put hard drive to another notebook. And even with Linux installed making dual boot installation is rather untrivial. And then it would be a pain to install anything from CD like pirated version of MS Office.
I think most people who buy the notebook will use Linux there.
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