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Re: [PLUG] Dell really gets Linux - at last
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I agree, the oversight is a moot point. It is hard to imagine anyone
sharpening their pitchforks and preparing their torches simply because
of this minute oversight. It's surprising, is all.
Dell does a tremendous amount of work to make sure that Linux is
compatible with their hardware. It makes sense to me. I would think
that it is easier for Dell to submit a set of patches and make Linux
work with their hardware as opposed to developing and packaging
drivers for multiple versions of Windows.
Anyone remember Peter Bailey's presentation in February of last year?
All that aside, I was looking to purchase a laptop in early 2007, and
I seem to remember seeing a Thinkpad on Lenovo's web site which was
pre-installed with SuSE.
--
Jim
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Michael Bevilacqua<michael@bevilacqua.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <ksbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On the contrary, I have had a bad experience trying to buy a Linux
>> laptop from Dell that I wrote about on this list a couple of years
>> ago. They just don't get Linux. So, I'm not surprised that they
>> botch their Linux message.
>
> On that note, have you tried to buy a Linux supported laptop from any of
> Dell's competitor's lately? HP, Lenovo, etc..
>
> Linux supported laptops? None that I could find.
>
> So I would hope a tiny marketing department 'fail' from Dell could be easily
> ignored considering what they have done for the Linux community in recent
> years.
>
>
> --
> Michael D. Bevilacqua
> michael@bevilacqua.us
>
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