Quoting ET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:03:07 +0100 > > Keith Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Friday 23 September 2005 6:44 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > >> > >>>On September 22, 2005 14:42, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > >>> > >>>Oh well, I'll still take the OS-free PC next time I need one. Last > >>>time I rolled my own to avoid the M$ tax. A fun learning > >>>experience, but buying the parts retail actually costs more than > >>>buying a complete machine from Dell. > > > > My experience also. At a rough estimate, from Ideal Computing 50% more > > than for their ready-made systems. > > > >>Ron, if someone bought a Dell machine with XP installed and took it > >>off, replacing it with Linux, do you know if it would invalidate > >>their guarantee? > >>--- snip ---- > > > > That is quite likely. I recently bought a Toshiba laptop from PC World and > > told them I would be wiping Windows and installing Linux. They refused to > give > > me any guarantee, even though it was just the hardware that needed to be > covered. > > Not unexpected. > about the time MDK 7.2 was out, it was announced that if you had a > gateway and called for support, and admitted to having installed any > open source operating system, your warranty ended with that phone call > > >
On a slightly different note: when I instaled Mandriva (then Mdke 10.1), I telephoned my ISP when I was setting up dial up access. They advised that linux was not supported, and if I had problems they couldn't assist. Fortunately I had no problems! cheers Rosemary ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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