Hello! They are indeed. However you need to ask for it properly. The drones that populate the 800# here do not get it that people do exist who aren't interested in anything created in a pouring rainstorm.
I remember bumping into a Dell rep at one of the Linux World Expo events. We spent some time talking, and he was pleasantly pleased that I managed to get Slackware 8.0 to run without any problems on a Dell commodity platform. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John > Summerfield > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Linux Laptops > > Tom Duerbusch wrote: > > It seems like Dell had a Linux Preload offer for a few months. I took it that Microsoft had > a talk with them and the Linux preloads were taken off the market. It seems to me that was > 2 years ago. > > > > I wonder what changed to allow Lenovo to consider doing this? > > I think Dell's doing it now. HP's been offering Ubuntu for a while. > > -- > > Cheers > John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
