another jerk in my mail box

[Philip Prindeville]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Laurence Orchard wrote:
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>>     
>>> 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.
>>
>>     
> As Henry Ford said about the model T.  You can get it in any color you
> want as long as it is black.  LOL
>   

Not true.

I've ordered machines (desktop) without Windows installed on them.  They're
even a bit cheaper.

I had to go to Executive Escalations to get it done, however.

-Philip

>> rday
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