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to: Robert Comer
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2007-05-02 13:18:46
subject: Re: Feisty Fawn only good for venison?

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep - Dell's Linux pre-bundle choice is Ubuntu so we'll be able to see if
there even is a nibble of interest. Is Dell just trying to generate some
buzz or are they seriously interested in selling a desktop/notebook with an
OS other than Windows?


"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:75bh331cgau6sruqmqlds88fr6pvbct1a5{at}4ax.com...
> It's got to get that good before business people take it seriously, so
> the criticism is more than valid.
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:00:31 -0400, "Frank Haber"
>  wrote:
>
>>Doesn't anyone think that review is, well, a little pin-headed?  Shame on
>>Jim
>>Lynch.  Has anyone seen any Linux that would install clean, with the right
>>drivers, on three different commodity-hardware boxen in sequence?  That's
>>just
>>not reality yet, except for vanilla ("live") disks and
"server" (CLI-only)
>>variants.
>>
>>And he foists off a review based on ONE older machine?  Fegh.

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