Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options

narramissic writes "In response to overwhelming user demand for Linux, Dell has posted a survey on a company blog that asks 'PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.' Votes will be collected through March 23, and Dell plans to use the feedback to begin selling Linux-based consumer PCs." The poll is pretty minimal. Wonder how much it will really guide Dell's choices.

No Poll?

[MindStalker]

No comments and the poll is already down.

Whoops

[Anonymous Coward]

Huh. We slashdotted Dell? Maybe their blade servers aren't up to scratch after all...

Slashdotted

[chrisbtoo]

Maybe that'll help guide Dell's opinion of whether people want Linux on their PCs.

Re:No Poll?

[26199]

This just in: Slashdot Closes a Poll on Linux Options :)

Obquote

[geeber]

In response to overwhelming user demand for Linux

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Dude!

[soloport]

"Dude! You Slashdotted Dell!"

Re:Whoops

[Anonymous Coward]

lols! Dell runs Microsoft IIS on their webservers!

Why Linux?

[Billly Gates]

What about Emacs?

Screw You Dell

[Dr Kool, PhD]

How are you leave off Debian GNU/Linux from the distribution list. Are you people just a bunch of idiots or what? It's obvious you Dellosers don't even know the history of GNU/Linux because Debian was the FIRST GNU/Linux distribution and continues to be the best GNU/Linux distribution. You'd have to be a complete moron to make a list of GNU/Linux distributions and leave off Debian GNU/Linux. It's obvious that Dell has no interest in supporting REAL free software, only a bunch of fake anti-freedom distros like Red Hat "Linux" (sic).

Dell you can go to hell, I am never going to buy your products again!!!

Re:Dude!

[McNihil]

They needed some help in realizing what overwhelming really means.

Re:Screw You Dell

[MightyYar]

Gee, I wonder why Dell is hesitant to embrace the Linux community?

Re:Survey Contents

[RealGrouchy]

What types of activities will you perform on your Dell system with Linux factory installed?

No, no, no.

I want Linux Operating System installed on my computer, not Linux Factory!

- RG>

Re:No Poll?

[pestilence669]

Microsoft ASP... why slow down under high traffic when you can just crash instead?

Re:Slashdot Linux anyone?

[PhaedrusLysias]

They already have an OS for people who don't know what they're doing. They call it Windows.

I think what he means

[Sycraft-fu]

Is that though they may have gotten slammed, it wasn't with genuine user demand, but rather Linux zealots stuffing the ballot box. Just because there are a bunch of responses to an un-scientific survey doesn't mean there's genuine user demand. Given what I've seen on forums and such I believe there was a large number of Linux users that have no intention of buying a Dell that were voting to try and support Linux.

Dell's servers being overwhelmed doesn't mean there's an actual overwhelming demand for Linux, just that there's a lot of Linux users with time on their hands who wish to try and give that impression, at least until they lose interest and move on to something else.

Re:Shouldn't be a hard choice.

[slashbob22]

Apple's OS X (and Microsoft Windows) is like Doritos (yum, Doritos). Doritos arrive fully loaded. Now, if you really want, you can load MORE stuff unto the Dorito by dipping it, and you can even scrape away some of the cheese-like topping, but not much. Most people eat Doritos right out of the bag and do not dip or top. That's why you buy a Dorito. After all, if you wanted to top it yourself, you'd buy corn chips.

Dear Sir,

Please do not mention food this near to dinner time, all this talk of:
Doritos,
Cheese,
Popcorn,
Dip,
Corn Chips,
Stuff, and
Apples
Is making me really hungry.

Not to mention that a car analogy is probably more effective - leather package, aftermarkets, etc.

Re:Dude!

[cheater512]

Mental note: Dont use Dell servers. They cant handle a slashdotting.

Re:Shouldn't be a hard choice.

[veganboyjosh]

i think the slashdot crowd already has the doritos on desktops angle covered...

Re:Screw You Dell

[Doug Neal]

If he was being ironic, then MAN he made a good impression of a pissed-off Debian nut.

Egg on my face... :)

If that's a good pissed-off Debian nut impression, I'd love to see his pissed-off FreeBSD nut impression... or even better, Gentoo...

Cowboy Neal

[xixax]

There was no option to install Cowboy Neal. How can they claim to be geek savvy?

Xix.

Re:I want FreeBSD

[Chandon Seldon]

No way. Screw this 1970's Unix crap. I want a dual boot Plan 9 / Coyotos system.

Re:Gotta kill the opening with a rusty pin

[Max Littlemore]

"Linux Learnings. We're listening".
...
Maybe they're not listening well enough?

My immediate thought on this is that maybe they're not learning enough lessons. In basic english grammar, for example.

For f**ks sake, learning is a verb. You cannot pluralise a verb, or even if it can be done for a few verbs, learning is definitely not one of them. The word is f**king lessons idiots! LESSONS!!! Saying "learnings" when you mean "lessons" will not, contrary to the theory of management speak, succeed in making me stupid. It does make you look stupid for believing it will and I don't trust stupid people to build f**cking PCs for me!!! F**KING F**CK F**CKS!!!!

Whew.. sorry for that outburst people, management speak makes my brain itch.

Not voting

[retro128]

Dell does not know their customers. I'm not participating in any Linux poll that does not have a CowboyNeal option.