On 6/13/06, Timothy Payne <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip> Thank you for almost all of the replies that told me what an idiot I am. I did make a couple of errors. 1) I assumed that something I pay for is better than the free version. (The installer is copyright 2001) Yes you can make something stable if it only installs on 2 motherboards and 3 video cards (smart ass remark)
Only if you believe Microsoft's FUD campain is any of this remotely true or accurate.
2) I assumed that the plain Dell office computer that FC 5 worked so well on would not be a problem. I tried to get pre-order information but was ignored by Red Hat. Dell does not list components on their invoice only part numbers. They are the largest computer maker in the world, you would think Red Hat would be connected at the hip with them.
Its fairly common knowledge that Dell has virtually no linux strategy and is basically just chasing the almighty dollar. The overwhelming majority of Dell's sales are still for hardware that is going to be used with a Microsoft OS. At best (and in Dell's own admission) only about 25% of Dell's _server_ sales are used for Linux. Their workstations are a far smaller percentage than that.
Debian is now downloading away at my office. Red Hat is the only Linux I've used for a desktop starting with V 5.1, if Debian doesn't work out I'll see if Novell will return any calls or email, it's a 31 flavors kind of thing now to see what I like. Of all the email I received, only one offer of help came, I'll be removing my name from the list now.
With that approach, its little surprise that you are ill-informed about the state of current Linux distributions and supported hardware. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
