On Saturday 24 Sep 2005 12:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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! > Most ISPs have a page of settings available, and really that's all you need from them. The only other problems are service problems, and they are OS-non-specific.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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