On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:48 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:04 -0700, Hex Star wrote: > > I don't think that comment about Dell not carring about linux is true: > > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn > > > I have been associated with an organization that only buys Dell machines > for many years. And our department loads Linux on all our machines. I > have three Dell machines running Linux at home. Did you manage to buy a Dell machine without a Microsoft OS installed & paid for? If so How? > > My experience is that Dell machines run Linux fairly well. If I have nay > complaint is that Dell sometimes condifures their machines with bleeding > edge components. So it has happened but not often that Linux support was > lagging a little behind on video cards for example. But it has never > been a serious problem. > I have not had a problem running Linux on them, just getting one without Windows. > -- > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxx Laurence
