Promoting Puppy Linux as a Default DELL computer OS.

[Reggie]

Promote Puppy Linux on Dell computers!
Click here and then click the VOTE button to promote Puppy Linux on Dell Computers:
http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/sh ... ash_Drives

[Billwho?]

I couldn't find a VOTE button but in the end I clicked on Promote which then changed to Voted.

[Lobster]

not sure if you have to register to vote - but if so then do a search for Puppy and vote - we are up to about 50 votes

[Reggie]

not sure if you have to register to vote - but if so then do a search for Puppy and vote - we are up to about 50 votes

No Registration needed, just click PROMOTE [blue square] and your vote is counted.

(You only have to register if you want to POST a new idea, not to just vote.)

Most Requested OS? You got it: LINUX!

[Flash]

Um, I hope you guys realize what you're asking for. Does the Puppy community have the resources to handle about a million people demanding HELP NOW? We'd be overwhelmed without a quick infusion of resources and expert help from Dell. Then what would happen to Puppy, and our cozy little forum?

[BlackAdder]

This from Builder.au:
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Thousands of Dell users have contacted a user forum to call for PCs to be shipped with a Linux operating system and the OpenOffice application suite.

Nearly 40,000 users have used the Dell Ideastorm Web site to promote the suggestion that Dell should: "Offer the three top free Linux versions [Fedora, OpenSuse and Ubuntu] for free pre-installation on all Dell PCs". It is now the most popular suggestion on the site.

Dell does offer some Linux systems, but most of its computers ship with either Windows Vista or XP.

The Dell Ideastorm site was launched on Friday to give users extra input into Dell's decision-making process. Visitors to the US-backed site choose which ideas they support by clicking on a button to "promote" a particular idea.

Users also came up with many other well-supported ideas. Over 20,000 said OpenOffice should be provided for free pre-installation alongside Microsoft Works or Microsoft Office.

Many of the following suggestions argued that Dell should supply Linux or other free software on its machines -- or at least that Windows should not be a default option.

Richard Thurston reported for ZDNet UK from London
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Seems that Flash can sleep easy, since Puppy did not make the top three.

[mbutts]

i have to agree with flash, lets not bite off more than we can chew. id rather offer a polished puppy than on that needs a bit more polishing. i think we are close but i prefer to error on the side of caution..... my 2 cents worth anyways

[rarsa]

Well, the petitions to have Linux certified in Dell computers is getting somewhere:

http://msn-cnet.com.com/Dell+takes+smal ... &tag=mymsn

[richard.a]

Hmmmm reading this...

Dell has acknowledged that 83,000 users have urged it to sell PCs with Linux pre-installed, but it has fallen short of accepting their suggestion.

One has to wonder if the price for which they buy oem software from Redmond has anything to do with it.

Reminds me of the schemozzle when Compaq (I think) was going to oem dual boot BeOS - and then suddenly they pulled out of the deal with BeOS, continuing to install the "only game in town"

Richard rather blasé in Adelaide

edit
Have you noticed that cnet is now hosted on msn too?