Quoting Doug (doug at northlandstudios.com): > I think another problem is that nobody is aggressively selling linux to > large OEM's, on any level (am I wrong here?). Sure IBM is dumping $1 billion > into it, but even IBM only has a small handful of machines they offer it on. > Dell tried it and dropped it because of lack of interest(their lack of > marketing sure didn't help though). And compare that to M$ spending $1 > billion on marketing winXP alone. Actually, Linux runs on a large number of IBM machines. The goal is to get it to run on all machines. I believe Dell dump linux on the desktop models only. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9