Hi all, My old HP Compaq Presario V6000 that I bought about 4 years ago with Fedora running on it ( I think I started with FC6 up to FC11 ) has finally died .... e.g. no display even during POST, and notebook keeps on rebooting itself I presume because it detected that there was display output, though I have not tried plugging the notebook to an external monitor / TV to see if it can boot up ... so posting this at the moment from a netbook running win7.
Anyway, I am thinking of buying a new laptop. I know there is an existing thread started by another SLUG user about buying a new laptop, but I am thinking of buying a Dell notebook this time, because they seem to have good support for linux, in particular Ubuntu in some of their Inspiron notebooks, though admittedly not all models. ( Apart from that, they support linux heavily in their PowerEdge platform, but that's another story ). Problem is, I could not seem to buy online from Dell Australia with Linux pre-installed. I can see Dell US offering Dell Inspiron 15N with Ubuntu pre-installed ( although a very old Ubuntu version ): http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&l=en&cs=19 ... but no such offer in Australia. Worse, if you go to the Australian site: http://www1.ap.dell.com/au/en/home/notebooks/ct.aspx?refid=notebooks&s=dhs&cs=audhs1&~ck=anavml .. under the "Operating System", there is no choice of "Linux" or "no OS" like they had with the PowerEdge series. So question is, has anyone bought on-line from Dell a laptop with either linux pre-installed or just with FreeDOS ? Regards, John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
