[Am-info] Dell and Linux

[Roy Bixler]

On Monday 13 May 2002 15:54, Hans Reiser wrote:
> They do it to me with my laptop.  Multiple times this has happened, and
> I am told by the twerp that management tells him to do this.  I have
> resolved it by calling until I get a different person, and going to
> great lengths to not admit to using Linux.  Not buying the laptop with
> windows was not an available choice, it was windows only.

Just out of curiosity, which arm of Dell is telling you this?  I know that 
the US Dell reversed their decision to pre-install Linux on their consumer 
level computers and reverted to their Windows-only policy, but I understood 
that some of their overseas divisions (their Australian arm is one example) 
decided to continue to offer Linux as a pre-installed option on the consumer 
level machines.

> I should have bought IBM, and next time I will.

Regardless of Dell's software preferences, the quality of their laptops 
leaves something to be desired.  IBM sounds like a better choice there.

R.