It was on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:51:41 +0100, that B Gruff wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 08:20 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> At the moment, I have SuSE 8.1 (circa 2002) running on a
>> Dell, which I must admit is Linux-friendly. I tried two
>> separate Dell models with Ubuntu and SuSE and everything
>> worked just fine 'out of the box'. I'd raise two thumbs for
>> Dell if it were not for all the "Dell recommends Windows XP"
>> malarkey, which is of course something from Microsoft's
>> books. Also see the recent article from NewsForge on the
>> state of OEM's and O/Sen in North America.
>
> Yep, but also note that Dell U.K. are advertising Linux with quite high-end
> stuff in the U.K.
> By that, I mean that it's in the list of OS options on their site.
> I think that price-wise it's "ring us", which leads me to wonder if they are
> stuck in some way to *not* show the actual cost of Windows, if you see what
> I mean?
According to LinuxFormat, Dell say that 25% of their enterprise sales are
now linux based. 9 out of 10 RedHat support calls are resolved in-house.
They are also working through the validation process with
Novell to become a SuSE Linux first-tier support partner.
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98% of linux problems that *windows* users whine about,
emanate from somewhere between the chair and the PC.
Either the person cannot read, doesn't understand
what they read, or they can't be bothered.
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