[ILUG] Buying PC's with Linux Pre-Installed

[John Kinsella]

Hi. I'm buying some PC's from Dell for my Dept. here in UL. Most are 
coming with Win*** but I thought I'd test the water & ask for a Linux 
build on one of them.

I am being asked to pay £40 over the cost of a Widows licence.

Am I being done? Presumably they would claim that building Linux is a 
low volume activity & that therefore they have to recover their costs.


Obviously I could buy a bare machine but I am interested in this as an 
experiment.

Comments?

John

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