Re: Fedora - DELL ?

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On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:12 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
> "Paul Osunero" <esiex3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The discussion at the dell blog shows that people really want Ubuntu first,
> > Fedora second, and Suse third out of the big three.  To be honest, Ubuntu
> > makes more sense because they'll have legal codecs from Linspire's CNR and
> > they have commercial support.  Fedora lacks these things right now...
> The best thing Dell could do for FOSS would be to offer systems that are 
> fully supported (hardware) by open source drivers.  This approach would 
> allow them to just confirm that as many distros as they choose to test 
> install correctly and work on the hardware.  It would also leave the 
> choice of whether to use proprietary codecs up to the individual 
> end-user and Dell stays out of the whole licensing, copyright, patent 
> mess.

I agree in principle. I suspect that they will be using ATI or Nvidia
cards in which case I do think they should ship the "good" drivers,
despite them not being FOSS

Furthermore, I don't believe it would cost them much (if anything) per
unit to ship gstreamer plugins for mp3 and DVD playback.

>   The plus for FOSS would be increased pressure on various hardware 
> manufacturers to release open source drivers or sufficient 
> specifications that the community can develop non-proprietary drivers 

In a perfect world it would.
I don't think it will in the real world.

> (even if Linux systems turn out to be only a small percentage of Dell 
> sales, the number of people opting for particular hardware because it's 
> supported by open source would be significant).
> 
> If Dell goes with a specific distro, I'd expect it to be RHEL or SLED.  
> One of Dell's primary concerns will be the cost of support and I'm 
> guessing that bundling a Linux distro support license would 1) look like 
> their Windows business model and 2) solve the support problem.

I expect they will use RHEL on business class machines and something
like Fedora or Ubuntu on less expensive machines. But speculating is
only speculating. If I could really get into the head of Michael Dell -
I'd be rich right now ...

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