Dell and Linux - the people's choice

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Dell and Linux - the people's choice

by Dolores Parker Feb 21st 2007

In addition to the sweeping changes in Dell's upper management ranks to h

elp right its slide in sales, Dell is reaching out to consumers for input on products and services at a website called Idea Storm.

So far, the suggestion getting the most votes is the one that offers one of the 3 top free Linux versions pre-installed on all Dell PCs.

The second vote getter is having Open Office, an open source alternative to Microsoft Office pre-installed on your machine. My favorite idea on the list, though, was saying no to foreign tech support! What do our readers think of the people's choice so far?

Tags: Dell, linux, open office, open source, OpenOffice, OpenSource

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gardiner Westbound said 4:49PM on 2-21-2007

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Dell offers a Linux-configured machine with the appropriate drivers in place, but requires the purchase of Fedora with it. This misses the whole point of open source software.

I believe sales would improve if it was offered pre-configured with the Ubuntu package, I don't think there is much Linux crapware out there, but if there is Dell should avoid it.
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Will said 5:45PM on 2-21-2007

I like the idea, and I'm glad Dell is giving us the chance to voice our opinions. The site needs to be better moderated and organized, but overall it's a good start.

Now if they only listen......

Bob said 5:47PM on 2-21-2007

For anyone interested, I put together a chart that compares the features and “Digg-like”-ness of the three new voting platforms by Yahoo, Dell, and Microsoft:

http://www.computers.net/2007/02/justhowdiggli.html

Bob Caswell said 5:49PM on 2-21-2007

Yayaja said 11:12AM on 2-22-2007

My personal favorite is getting rid of bundled software. I HATE BUNDLED SOFTWARE!!!! Everytime I reformat my computer I have to spend at least half an hour uninstalling all of the bundled crap that comes on my emachines recovery disc. There should be a checklist before the install, and anything that you don't want installed, you can simply un-check.

Conficio said 2:41PM on 2-23-2007

Be aware that this IdeaStorm system does count its votes in 10s. So all votes appear inflated by a magnitude.

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