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. > > 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. ---- 'condifures' ? not in my dictionary. PowerEdge servers all are certified to work with RHEL Various 'Dimension' desktop systems can be populated with hardware that will be unrecognizable to various Linux systems - that shouldn't come as a surprise though the later kernel releases that are incorporated in Fedora but NOT incorporated in RHEL will recognize more of the hardware. That apparently comes as a surprise to the OP. The upshot is that the OP didn't understand enough about Linux to have reasonable expectations. My thinking is that the OP apparently parlayed his unreasonable expectations into non-action by Red Hat with his accusatory manner...too bad, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Craig
