[Am-info] Dell and Linux

[Hans Reiser]

Roy Bixler wrote:

>On Monday 13 May 2002 15:54, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>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.
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>Just out of curiosity, which arm of Dell is telling you this? 
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The US one.

> 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.
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>>I should have bought IBM, and next time I will.
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>Regardless of Dell's software preferences, the quality of their laptops 
>leaves something to be desired.  IBM sounds like a better choice there.
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You mean the reliability?  It has had quite a few problems....

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