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On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:11, Greg Dash wrote: > When machines start shipping with Vista I think PCs will jump up in price > due to the high price for the editions of Vista, Home Basic is been shunned > by some PC manufactures (Acer for one) and "Home Premium" is more than XP > Home was at ship date, I really do hope Dell or another manufactures start > shipping notebooks without an OS or with a open source OS pre-installed > (maybe Ubuntu or Suse) but as Linux is still a "niche" market despite is > rapid growth I think big manufactures are happy to ship Vista/XP to you > even if you end up using the CD as a coaster. Perhaps one of the reasons Microsoft are working with Novell these days? Suse is of course a Novell product ;) Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html