Re: another jerk in my mail box

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On 6/14/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Laurence Orchard wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> IIRC, you can get some of the dell *servers* with linux.  if you're
> buying a regular desktop or notebook, you *can* get your choice of
> operating system, as long as it's windows.
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ALL Dell servers for the past few years have been certified to work with
RHEL

What exactly does "certified to work" mean?  If its anything similar
to Microsoft's WHQL certification, then its just a meaningly marketing
effort, and doesn't really guarentee any more than that the drivers
exist and support the hardware.


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