Dell's w/o OS - where?

Peter Connolly psconnolly at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 04:46:17 UTC 2007


Also check out the SlashDot story about getting a refund for Windows from Dell:

How to get a Refund on Your Unwanted Windows
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/1946215

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On 2/3/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Sat February 3 2007, Craig White wrote:
> > as hardware systems go, Dell makes systems that are as cheap as any but
> > they also offer better systems and I definitely think that the adage
> > 'you get what you pay for applies' here.
> >
> > I have few complaints about Dell and they are easy enough to reach on
> > the phone and get warranty repairs/parts and I haven't had any arguments
> > with them about repairs which I think inures to their credit. Also to
> > their credit, they have been extremely supportive to Linux - at least
> > with support for SuSE and Red Hat software, moderate in support for
> > Debian and interestingly enough, their software installs on CentOS
> > without any trickery at all (i.e. having to
> > 'doctor' /etc/redhat-release)
> >
> > Dell was strictly Intel until a few months ago and thus the market for
> > the AMD based systems has somewhat escaped them. I gather by the reports
> > that the newer Intel Duo-Core are in par if not outperforming the
> > AMD-64's these days but I leave that assessment to others that are more
> > knowledgeable about those things.
> >
> > Anyway, I think Dell has been an asset to Linux and all of their
> > PowerEdge servers for several years now have been certified to work with
> > Windows and Linux.
> >
> > BTW - Matt Domsch, Dell employee and author of dkms is also a member of
> > Fedora Project Board of Directors <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board>
>
> I'd have to mostly agree with all of the above. The issues I've had were with
> lower end hardware, though still business machines. But, I was on a low
> budget mission, and I didn't want to replace the Dell Optiplex's we're
> retiring now with more of the same. To get the same features in a Dell that
> I described in my earlier post re: the SuperMicro system we ordered, would
> have cost us more than twice as much. It wasn't my call ultimately - the
> decider chose to go with two systems for the price of one, which is about
> what it worked out to.
>
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> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA
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