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ThinkPads will get Suse Linux preloaded
News Engineers and designers in need of a mobile workstation now have the option for a preloaded version of Novell's Suse Linux on a ThinkPad laptop computer. Lenovo and Novell plan to announce at the LinuxWorld conference on Tuesday that the ThinkPad...
[August 15, 2006, 9:55]
PCs preloaded with completely free Net access
News The scramble towards totally free Internet access continues apace this week as PC manufacturer Evesham Micros announces it is to preload CallNet's 0800 service on selected computers. CallNet set up its free Internet service in November and has been...
[January 13, 2000, 16:00]
Windows Vista failing to attract businesses
News Windows Vista is failing to attract business users, with sales of PCs preloaded with the corporate version of Microsoft's latest OS slowing. Microsoft recently announced it would continue selling PCs preloaded with its previous operating system...
[October 3, 2007, 9:16]
IBM preloads Linux on its servers
News Merisel has offered TurboLinux preloaded on Netfinity systems. KeyLink Pioneer has carried Red Hat Linux on Netfinity, and Ingram Micro has offered IBM customers both Red Hat and TurboLinux preloaded on IBM's servers.
[April 25, 2000, 9:10]
Does Microsoft owe you money?
News What if all computer users who aren't using their preloaded Windows copies tried to get their money back from Microsoft Corp.all on the same day? The idea for a mass revolt against Windows preloads, according to thenoodle.com web site, was spawned...
[January 21, 1999, 11:00]
A Year Ago: Does Microsoft owe you money?
News What if all computer users who aren't using their preloaded Windows copies tried to get their money back from Microsoft -- all on the same day? The idea for a mass revolt against Windows preloads, according to thenoodle.com web site, was spawned by...
[January 21, 2000, 6:01]
SuSE to sell Linux PCs online
News SuSE is expanding its efforts to attract consumer-desktop users through a distribution deal with low-cost PC maker Microtel and retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, which will see PCs preloaded with SuSE Linux 8.2 sold on Walmart.com.
[July 15, 2003, 11:32]
HP 2133 Mini-Note: Lessons Learned
Blog Not only in that it has Linux instead of Windows preloaded, but the hardware is also different. The new HP 2133 Mini-Note with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 preloaded arrived Friday, as I had expected.
[March 2, 2009, 11:42]
Re: Media
Talkback It seems odd that you received a machine which was preloaded with something you couldn't restore. Is it possible that you got the system preloaded with XP, and the XP "recovery" is on the hard disk, and then they included the Vista recovery DVDs...
[April 29, 2008, 10:52]
HP's new iPAQs review
Reviews Aimed at mobile professionals who require a fully-featured device with a QWERTY keyboard, the iPAQ 914 Business Messenger is a chunky Windows Mobile 6 smartphone with an impressive specification: 520MHz Marvell PXA270 processor, 256MB ROM and...
[September 7, 2007, 11:52]
Linux on Netbooks - Hope for the Future
Blog Microsoft was doing their utmost to kill XP, by setting cutoff dates for sales of licenses and preloaded systems. The fact that Vista was an absolute pig on netbooks gave Linux an opening, and several of the first few netbooks came preloaded with...
[October 28, 2009, 8:43]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog Of course, regardless of what operating system came preloaded, I have always loaded various Linux distributions on them. I wish that they would offer Linux preloaded on a few more of them, and Windows preloaded on a few less, but only the market is...
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
Compaq launches competition for handheld Linux apps
News Compaq itself said it has one European OEM that sells Linux preloaded on the iPaq. Compaq will not comment on whether it plans to sell iPaq itself with Linux preloaded. Compaq Computer has launched a contest designed to stimulate developer interest...
[June 19, 2001, 15:36]
Line Rider Mobile (S60 V3)
Downloads Line Rider (TM) Mobile brings all the fun of the Internet phenomenon to your mobile.Grab the pencil tool and construct tracks filled with ramps, hills, and jumps, and then send your virtual sledder down the route.Play the addictive Puzzles mode to...
[December 7, 2007, 6:00]
Line Rider Mobile (Palm OS)
Downloads Line Rider (TM) Mobile brings all the fun of the Internet phenomenon to your mobile.Grab the pencil tool and construct tracks filled with ramps, hills, and jumps, and then send your virtual sledder down the route.Play the addictive Puzzles mode to...
[November 2, 2007, 6:00]
The Windows Premium and the Vista Premium
Blog The last system comes preloaded with Vista Business and includes an XP Professional "downgrade" option with included recovery disks. So that is a difference of 43.60 francs (~ £25 or $40) to get XP instead of Linux preloaded on otherwise identical...
[April 6, 2009, 17:28]
Linux PCs 'used to run pirated Windows'
Talkback More correctly, you should say 'PCs preloaded with open source Linux software can subsequently be installed with Microsoft Windows. Put like that, it sounds like a non-story.it smells like lazy journalism with a Microsoft agenda to me; perhaps it...
[October 5, 2004, 15:30]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
Blog Comment Even when an OEM is sufficiently {smart|brave|foolish|whatever} to offer a product with Linux preloaded, they immediately start getting inundated with "why did you choose that distribution, and not my personal favorite?
[October 17, 2009, 9:07]
Windows ME: Available for you in September
News Typically, following their own final testing and burning processes, PC makers vie to be the first to ship machines preloaded with the latest Microsoft Windows release. But Microsoft officials said it was unclear when the first PCs preloaded with...
[June 20, 2000, 8:46]
XP Starter Edition off to a slow start
News Supreme Computer - one of the largest PC manufacturers in the country - is even selling a low-end Celeron PC preloaded with Linux for 15,490 Thai baht (£210). Shintara told ZDNet UK sister site CNETAsia that his primary product line will remain...
[March 18, 2005, 11:10]
