On Tuesday 28 January 2003 10:03 pm, Charlie wrote: <snip> > 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; </snip>
And Robert wrote : <snip> >PS---If Dell states they dont support MDK, this is true >b/c they sell RH instead. Workstation/Server Support >does support the HW, not the OS....to a point. IF >something is NOT working just post it to the MDK mailing >lists and it will get sorted out fairly quickly. </snip> Well, I'll go for an Optiplex with only this rudimentary DOS on it. Then I'll install Mandrake. If anything goes wrong - other than really basic matters - I'll post to the list, of course. Thanks a lot for your advice, listers. Kaj Haulrich. =========================================== Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===========================================
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