On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:32:07PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thursday 04 November 2004 8:12 pm, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Dell will supply laptops without Windows installed, but you may have a struggle getting them to admit it. http://www.transtec.co.uk /used/ to supply Linux laptops but it looks like they have stopped doing this, but I can't check for certain as their site is running very slowly right now.
Really, are they still doing that.
I know they did for a while, then they buckled a bit under pressure from MS and started including (I think) FreeDOS as an alternative OS choice (MS said that supplying the units without an OS at all was promoting piracy)
Then I was pretty sure Dell buckled completely and now (with the exception of some server products) they were only offering desktop and laptop products with MS OEM licences.
Well, I was looking for a new laptop for my nephew on the Dell Outlet recently and plenty kept turning up with "FreeDos" it doesn't appear as a configuration option on the site normally for buying online, but you would probably have more luck if you phoned them up first. I must admit that I thought they had given up the same as you, but the evidence of their site seems to suggest otherwise. I also think when I was looking at 1U servers the other week that Redhat advanced server was an option.
Adam