another jerk in my mail box
Philip Prindeville
philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Thu Jun 15 23:03:01 UTC 2006
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 09:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Laurence Orchard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 08:48 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:04 -0700, Hex Star wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't think that comment about Dell not carring about linux is true:
>>>>> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I have been associated with an organization that only buys Dell
>>>> machines for many years. And our department loads Linux on all our
>>>> machines. I have three Dell machines running Linux at home.
>>>>
>>> Did you manage to buy a Dell machine without a Microsoft OS
>>> installed & paid for? If so How?
>>>
>> IIRC, you can get some of the dell *servers* with linux. if you're
>> buying a regular desktop or notebook, you *can* get your choice of
>> operating system, as long as it's windows.
>>
>>
> As Henry Ford said about the model T. You can get it in any color you
> want as long as it is black. LOL
>
Not true.
I've ordered machines (desktop) without Windows installed on them. They're
even a bit cheaper.
I had to go to Executive Escalations to get it done, however.
-Philip
>> rday
>>
>>
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