Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Peter A. Giessel
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future. It can't hurt anyway :) http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey P.S., feel free to CC

Dell Linux survey

2007-03-13 Thread Scott I. Remick
Due to the positive response they've gotten regarding people wanting systems pre-installed with Linux, Dell has put a survey up: http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey FreeBSD users might want to fill out the survey and at the end, choose other for the distribution enter FreeBSD. Can't hurt :)

Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread TooMany Secrets
Sorry for the top-posting, but only one to was added, and wasn't this list. 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and looking into providing

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and looking into providing support and

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Warren Myers
I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was most BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD? WMM On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dell is actually asking