On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 08:46 -0700, Mr O wrote: > Short answer: No > > A couple weeks ago I installed Sabayon on a machine and it > actually finished in around an hour I think. Then I rebooted as > per the instructions and watched it just hang. A few days later > I took Ubuntu 7.04 and had it installed in 20 minutes. > > I see no reason Dell can't preload at least Java and Flash. They > aren't open source but they aren't 'illegal' either. Restricted > drivers are available from a menu. DVD playback on the other > hand... > > That be all, > Mr O. >
Right. What I also saw as well when testing some distro's in the past 6 mos. Nor do they really have any popular official or unofficial mirrors with packages for the closed source binaries when searching via google. I know redhat has somethings on google, but not as collective as Mandrakes PLF mirror. (Now that I recall, PLF also mirrored Ubuntu other-licensed packages for a short while, but it got yanked. Probably due to the close competition of Mandrake & Ubuntu.) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61 Wed May 2 12:17:57 PDT 2007 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
