[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Bernd Felsche]

"Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com> writes:

>Its not a distro I'm after, in fact its a pretty decent chance that
>the customer that wants it will wipe it and put their own distro on
>it. But they want is an INTEL pc vendor with a good name and longevity
>to supply linux supported PC's.

>Its strange because I didn't think that would be such a big problem,
>but after doing some more research I've found that there isn't many
>vendors out there that _actually_ support their hardware with linux
>from the box.

>Sure IBM certify their laptops with suse but they don't sell them
>without windows etc...

In Australia.

In Europe, you can order ASUS, IBM, etc with SuSE pre-installed as
the only operating system.

>I would have thought that hardware suppliers would be eager to do
>this as people who don't spend money on the MS tax have more money
>to spend on hardware (in theory anyhow)

ACCC needs to re-visit restrictive marketing practices.
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