On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:20 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: <snip> > > That demystifies things, Charlie. Coming to think about it, > the explanation about DOS *to make the hard drive spin* > seems utterly nonsense to me. Actually, I wondered if the > man knew what he was talking about. The reason to have DOS > installed must serve testing purposes, I guess : to test > serial, parallel and USB ports, monitor-outlets, floppy > drive etc. etc.. That comes for a price, of course. > > Kaj Haulrich.
Yes, testing the components has to be; or should be, done or the prospective customer is a potential PR disaster. But I still think the testing is already a part of the overhead costs calculation without any consideration of the OS cost. Maybe Dell (and a few others) will learn from their past agreements with Microsoft and not be quite so hamstrung. One can hope so at any rate. Since they offered a guarantee (in writing?) that the box will run GNU/Linux it would seem the proper advice would be; "Go for it!" It will doubtless save time and at least a certain amount of money versus building from hardware available at retail. You'll let the list know the result should you go ahead Kaj? I'd be curious at the least. :-) Thanks and regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. -- Quentin Crisp
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