[gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

2008-07-08 Thread Matthew R. Lee
I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it? I sure it will work, I'm just wondering if there are any tweaks that dell have

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

2008-07-08 Thread Christopher Koeber
I don't really know off of the top. Based off of secondhand knowledge none that I can recall. However, the best thing I can think of to be sure everything works is to get the latest knoppix DVD and then run that. If the basics work right off of the bat (WLAN,video,sound,Power functions) then you

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

2008-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it? Your question as stated

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Linux desktop

2008-07-08 Thread waltdnes
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:12:53AM -0400, Matthew R. Lee wrote I'm thinking of buying a dell Ubuntu desktop (Inspiron 530MT) for my lab. The university has an arrangement that can get me a discount. I have a question, has anyone bought one of these and installed gentoo on it? I sure it will