Morgan Storey wrote:
what about the one in Ubuntu 104535...
Beside the point no vendor is going to know about minor bugs that may kill
their hardware.
But they are likely to attribute any fault to the alternate operating system.
Though having said that, I did have to take my current 2004 laptop into a
service centre when it wouldn't boot after I had loaded Knoppix. I did this with
some treppidation ready to reinstall XP if I needed to. However, when I spoke to
the Tech, he showed me shrink wrapped Xandros boxes and took a copy of my
Knoppix Disk :-).
He asked me to leave the computer with him, and come back in a
couple of days. I think the problem was just a flat battery. Which brings me
back to the power management and other bits of hardware not working - sorry, I
am not going to get involved in recompiling Kernels.
Haven't had any problems since, but see "Switch to Linux" (Late 2003)
<http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/linux-log1.html>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 13:48 +1000, Morgan Storey wrote:
I don't believe that manufacturers can claim that the warranty has been
voided by simply installing a different operating system.
Kernel bug #11382, anyone? (i.e. e1000e on Linux 2.6.27-rc1)
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