Official support for Debian on servers
Servers and Storage, Service and Support submitted by maulkin
02/21/07
As recently reported, HP now offer official support for the Debian distribution on their ProLiant server range. I believe it would be a big boost for Dell to offer similar support.
This would generate good will within a notoriously loyal community, leading to a) greater sales for Dell, and b) a happier userbase where the system just works :)
This would also enable Debian based distributions to offer good compliance.
(disclaimer, I'm a Debian Developer, so have a vested interest in this :P)
Edit: as a aside, this comprises/extends various other ideas in this section. I believe that offering support for a specific system would also solve those other options.
Edit2: It looks like it may also make excellent financial sense to support Debian:
"HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution. ... In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian support." http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3661481
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Linux, Operating Systems - Multiboot submitted by gplgeek
02/20/07
We really need a option to not ship any OS with the system, or be able to choose Debian pre-installed.
All systems should have NATIVE and preferably open drivers where possible. For example, wifi drivers should be open, or provided by the kernel. Kernel.org offers to code drivers free if given specs by companies so there is no reason we should not have a stable and compatible system.
Most of my friends are moving to linux for gaming, as I have, but I do admit that I use other os's from time to time to play legacy games... For this reason maybe you should have checkboxes so that people can select the os's that they want.
I'm sure they would be satisfied with a install cd, or even netboot image, in fact you could put many net-boot installers on a multi-boot dvd and in one disk easily allow the installation of debian, debian testing (etch), Fedora, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Freedos, Reactos, FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, etc.
I am not opposed to offering Microsoft products to users but having any OS be a default OS, or exclusively ship with a PC, screams anti-trade to me.
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