Wiki143:Articles for deletion/List of PCs For Sale with Linux

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 07:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

List of PCs For Sale with Linux

Promotional, mostly red links, commercial external links, little value. -- uberpenguin @ 2006-08-15 14:59Z

• Neutral it's not inherently listcruft. the abundance of external and red links is against it, but it is verifiable and something that readers might want to know. i kan reed 15:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. --Sleepyhead 15:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as only a single link on the page is not a red link. Perhaps a list of manufacturers offering PCs with Linux pre-installed would be better. - Thorne N. Melcher 15:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I DID have  a list of OEMs (Hardware+software) for Linux PCs.
I had them listed as external links at the bottom just like other articles with other PCs like Windows and Apple.
I think it is unfair to omit these computer manufacturers.

Other models of computers in other articles are listed such as: 

Apple Computer, Apple II, Apple Lisa, and Apple Macintosh Xerox Star Osborne  Acorn Archimedes  RiscPC Atari ST BeOS BeBox Pegasos NEC PC-9800 NeXT workstations Sun SPARCstation SGI Indigo and SGI Onyx

It is unfair to not list Linux PC models.

cc http://www.thetc.org/ 

cyber_rigger

There's nothing architecturally significant about a PC running Linux. Usually it's just an IBM PC compatible running an x86 Linux distribution. All of the computers you mentioned are in some way notable or architecturally significant. The article under consideration was just a list of computer models and commercial links. Its similar in concept (though not in scale) to creating a List of PC models that run Microsoft Windows. -- uberpenguin @ 2006-08-15 20:35Z

• Delete per nom. Has no sources to suggest the list is either correct or complete, and by its nature inherently cannot be maintained. -- Slowmover 20:48, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - no sources, empty links to manufacturers which are of no help, non-verifiable, and generic Personal computer keeps getting added to this list, which is extremely unhelpful --Brat32 21:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. A list of manufacturers offering Linux-based PCs might be maintainable (though it might still be nonencyclopedic); but trying to maintain a list of individual models seems hopeless. Kickaha Ota 15:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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