Re: Dell rebuttal - was Dell knocks Linux off the desktop

[Ade Talabi <adetalabi claranet co uk>]

Matt_Domsch Dell com,

You are right, I bought a power edge with RH6.2 factory installed. I installed sysbase as root DOH!, which blew out
one of my partitions, since I did not pay for support, I blew out RH6.2 and installed RH7.0.

Good boxes though, I love it..Ighz, 1G of RAM. though the 2.2Ghz process form intelicent (sp) made me moody today

Matt_Domsch Dell com (Matt_Domsch Dell com) said thusly on [03/08/01 at 16:05]:

> 
> So yes, we have to limit what we offer as standard factory install.  What I
> keep hearing though, is that people don't care about factory install.
> They're going to take what we do, blow it off the disk, and re-install
> themselves.  They're going to blow off Red Hat Linux, and install Debian, or
> SuSE, or Mandrake, or TurboLinux, or ....   Given that, why should my team
> spend the time working on factory-install?  All it provides then is an
> http://lists.us.dell.com/, or through http://www.dell.com/linux.
> 
> 
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Dell Linux Solutions
> www.dell.com/linux
> #2 Linux Server provider with 17% in the US and 14% Worldwide (IDC)!
> #3 Unix provider with 18% in the US (Dataquest)!

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