From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 6:38:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA7A37B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.141]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id JAA21087; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:38:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id JAA11243; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:38:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:38:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@breakout.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <14841.10909.686279.398519@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah gateway wasn't one of them as far as I saw. Dell, Compaq and HP all have Linux sections on their website and say they will sell you a computer with it on it. HP's was very dissapointing as they say it but don't say what models they offer it with and the link to buy them was broken. None of them had any information on FreeBSD that I saw. If we would like that to be an option in the future we should all search for freebsd on all these websites search sections (they log that) and even email them to ask to include freebsd computers. Tim On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > Tim McMillen writes: > > Some of the larger OEM's can start to offer Linux but that's all > > they are likely to do soon because of the training costs involved. When > > the mass market (even those that are savvy enough to handle a free unix > > system) buys a computer they want it to be fully configured when they get > > it. It would have to have X windows and KDE or Gnome installed > > Well, Gateway will sell you a *server* with Linux on it. Not a desktop > - still got to have an MS OS and mouse (which is almost as bad as the > OS). However, they charge you over $300 for Linux. Getting a box > without an OS wasn't an option. > > They're overpriced anyway... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message