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[News] Dell Compatibility Error Prevents Linux Buy

Quote from Digg:

Dell's Confused Compatibility

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| I decided to buy a Microsoft-Free Linux PC. When I was finished
| specc'ing out my system, I got this nice compatibility notice.
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http://www.elflord.net/wtf.jpg

Have a look below.


Related:

Is it Dell vs. SPEC? or Dell vs. Linux?

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| In exploring SPEC.org's site for yesterday's blog I came across something
| interesting: specifically a configuration problem with a benchmark result
| for the dual Xeon, eight core, 2.66Ghz Dell 2950.
|
| [...]
|
| Since we're actually still in "Dec 06" what this suggests to me is
| that Dell's left hand is decidedly more enthusiastic about Linux in
| general and Red Hat in particular than its right - meaning in practice
| that they prefer seeing potential sales go away to correcting errors in
| their configurator.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=754

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