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

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