another jerk in my mail box

[Robert P. J. Day]

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.

rday