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

2007-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav -

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

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see

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

2007-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. Ubuntu is developed and maintained by

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