Re: buy laptop with linux pre-installed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sylvain Bougerel <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 10:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [Slugnet] buy laptop with linux pre-installed
>
>
> The only 2 laptops I ever managed to get pre-installed with linux are the
> EeePC. In SG, I never saw anything else sold with Linux.
> You got to understand the distributors too... I mean the level of
> penetration of Linux is so low in Singapore... Back when I was at NUS, even
> in the school of computing, I don't remember having met a guy actually using
> it. Sad.
> Well that's not gonna help you... but I understand your frustration.
> Cheers, Happy good friday.

I've been travelling the entire last few months, and was surprised to
see Linux having a really big footprint in the South Asian market. I
saw a number of pamphlets with lines like:

"Linux Ubuntu 8.10"

And those were not ads for some local brand or patched-up systems, but
rather that of Dell.

I think vendors themselves actually advise distributors on this,
because Linux would be most needed in developing countries where
piracy is rampant. In a country like ours, where more people can and
will buy original, it doesn't make sense to them to offer Linux as
part of a product, since they don't know what Free Software means
other than "free".


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