On Tuesday 23 March 2004 11:03 am, William Warren wrote: > just from this post..it works with windows and not with Linux..Bioses > can be tied to windows and as part of the MS OEM license that is what > most large computer vendors do to get the rock bottom pricing on > windows. Gateway only supports windows and they do not and will not > support Linux on that machine. The warranty states no third party > software or hardware is not supported and will not be supported by > gateway. Dell and most other vendors have similar clauses in their > warranty agreements...they will not and do not have to replace anything > if it will run under windows. the court case will go nowhere if the > case is based on the machines inability to run Linux.
FWIW, a brief search of Gateway's site led to over 100 how-to's related to installing Red Hat and Suse on their products, which suggests that Gateway has an awareness of Linux. I'm not familiar with the Gateway product line, so that it is quite possible that the references are to servers only. Marc, you might want to spend some time poking around on the Gateway site. -- cmg
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