another jerk in my mail box

[Eric Brunson]

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:
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>>> 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?
>   
I bought one of their 600SC servers several years ago on hella discount 
and it came with a blank disk.
>> 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 at sbcglobal.ne
>>     
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> Laurence
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