another jerk in my mail box

[Laurence Orchard]

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?
> 
> 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

Laurence