From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I agree with the fishing.  It will be interesting to see the 'selected'
desktop/notebooks that Dell offers later this month .  If it's Dell's
liquidation lineup ........


"Robert Comer"  wrote in
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> >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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