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posted by janrinok on Sunday July 31 2016, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the eating-your-own-dogfood dept.

Amid Dell's looming takeover of EMC, an edict has been issued insisting that Dell customers must only ever see Dell laptops during meetings and consulting engagements, EMC insiders have told The Register. Thus, any Macs in EMC staffers' hands will be confined to quarters.

After Dell and EMC combine, those office-bound Apple computers should be safe from company-wide rollouts of Dell Windows PCs. EMC has in the past revealed it has a bring-your-own-device policy that lets people use personal devices to access email, in-house messaging and private cloud storage.

At least EMC staff after being offered nice replacement kit, in the form of the gaming-bred XPS machines, that another insider told us have been promised to incoming Dell employees.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Hardness on Sunday July 31 2016, @12:49PM

    by Hardness (4766) on Sunday July 31 2016, @12:49PM (#382253)

    //Does dell still sell Machines with Linux pre-installed?

    Developer Edition:
    http://pilot.search.dell.com/laptops/developer%20edition [dell.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @09:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @09:40PM (#382371)

    If Dell (or any manufacturer) simply demonstrates that the hardware is Linux-compatible, you don't even have to order the box with Linux pre-installed.

    If Dell can get Linux running on the box, there's no reason that you can't do that for yourself.
    (They've demonstrated that Linux device drivers are available for all the hardware.)
    In fact, you might prefer a distro that is different from the one they have chosen.

    This DIY plan means having a dual-boot with Windoze, which will give added flexibility and security.

    Frankly, I don't understand why having Linux on some boxes so that customers/potential customers can see that is not seen by Dell as a positive.
    ...unless Dell is (still) purposely sandbagging Linux.

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