[Am-info] Dell and Linux

[Roy Bixler]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 08:46:57PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Dell makes enough of a claim to support Linux to not get dropped from 
> consideration when doing bids, but does not support it enough that 
> anyone in their right minds would actually run Linux if Dell was their 
> supplier and they wanted support.

Unfortunately, at work, Dell is the preferred supplier.  I've been
pushing Linux use on the server for years and I've often been
successful.  Of course, in that time, sometimes the hardware has
required service.  Dell's support is slanted towards Windows but they
have an option on their phone tree for calling in problems on systems
running Linux or Unix.  So far, no one has asked us to install Windows
for support.  If they did, that would be awfully presumptuous since
the systems were ordered with "no preinstalled OS" (i.e. at no time
while in our posession was Windows ever installed on those machines.)

-- 
Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
                -- Ziggy