I think we have a contract or some deal with Dell, so I doubt we will be going anywhere else ;-) However, I definitely believe that it is good that the vendors are aware that not everybody is stuck in the Windows camp. We were just complaining that it was annoying that we couldn't order it without Windows, it is stupid that we have to pay for Windows and then simply erase it. (But I know everybody here already knows that.) Anyway I rang Dell up and talked to someone in tech support and he said he didn't know of any reason that FC2 wouldn't run on that machine. He couldn't find anything that said it was a 64-bit machine. If it isn't a 64-bit machine I can't see why there would be any problem at all. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dale Sykora Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 2:51 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Does anybody know of problem running FC2 on Dell Precision Workst ation 370? Edwards, Scott (MED, Kelly IT Resouces) wrote: > They are looking to buy a new machine for doing some development and we > were going to order a Dell Precision Workstation 370, With an Intel > Pentium 4 3.6 GHz processor (EM64T,1MB/800). But some people have said > that it is too new and Fedora Core 2 won't work on it. Does anyone know > if this would be a problem? > Scott, Hopefully you will get an answer on this list. However, I would encourage you to ask Dell directly. As recently suggested by the eweek.com Linux guru, Linux needs more 1st tier vendor support. If Dell starts hearing that more buyers will go elsewhere if their products don't work well with Linux distros, perhaps they will give support more consideration. Thanks, Dale -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
