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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Robert Comer
date: 2007-05-02 14:03:14
subject: Re: Feisty Fawn only good for venison?

From: Robert Comer 

>Is Dell just trying to generate some
>buzz or are they seriously interested in selling a desktop/notebook with an
>OS other than Windows?

Just fishing I suspect...

--
Bob Comer



On Wed, 2 May 2007 13:18:46 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>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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