[ILUG] ``Got anything without so much Windows in it?''

[Brian Foster]

Good Morning Silicon Valley
 Published: Tuesday August 3, 2004
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   Got anything without so much Windows in it?

 Hewlett-Packard today becomes the first major PC
 manufacturer to offer a Linux-based laptop when it
 uncrates the HP Compaq Business Notebook nx5000, a $1,199
 Centrino laptop that comes preloaded with SuSE Linux.  The
 machine will no doubt be welcomed by Linux users tired of
 installing their preferred OS on machines preloaded with
 Windows.  "In this industry, (given) the amount of money
 companies spend on marketing, sometimes vendors seem to
 have a surprisingly thin idea of what people want to
 buy," according to RedMonk analyst Governor, a veritable
 quote machine today.  "Preinstalled Linux on laptops and
 PCs is an idea whose time has come."
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 Good Morning Silicon Valley is written and edited with
 the able assistance of John Murrell.

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