Alan Mead wrote:
> At 04:46 AM 9/7/00 , you wrote:
>
> > I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of
> >interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway
> >and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not
> >start with RH and build from there ?? That way you get the Linuxcare support
> >tokens and what have you.
>
> This thread has probably run it's course but I'll go ahead and mention that
> I bought a 1300 12 or 18 months ago. At that time RH cost something like
> $150 or $200 to install. This just seemed wrong, but the reason I decided
> to do my own was to optimize the partitioning and packages
> installed. (Also it needed to run Red Hat's Secure Server which was not, I
> think, a choice). The couple questions I've had for Dell, their tech
> support has answered admirably, none of this, "Oh, we don't support Linux.
> Click." BS.
(Like Alan, I'm giving a cursory response for similar reasons) The
high cost for installing the OS is to cover the costs of suppporting the
OS. In general, if you buy a system with no OS installed, or you wipe off
one OS and put on another you'll get no /free/ support for the OS you put i
on the machine.
-W-
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