OT: Dell and Ubuntu Deal

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:45:42AM +0200, Uwe Geercken wrote:
:I am using Dell since years. They always worked well with Ubuntu, except from
:small things.

That is good news, but are you serious?  Dell is a "preferred vendor"
at MIT so I see rather alot around the lab I need to support, but I do
my best to talk people out of it even though it means a bit more
paperwork.  They never *really* tell you what's going to be in the box
and often change componets like the disk contrroller with in the same
model.  As linux supports more and more haredware this is becoming
less and less of an issue.  But hands down Dell has been the worst
vendor I've seen for compatibility, granted this just in time use
what's cheap strategy lets them build to a very low price point.

:Lets collect and send Dell some greetings for this fine step!

Well yes lets do that in droves, if the box comes with linux on it
then they have to consider linux compatibility, adn it is hard to beat
their low end systems on price.


Obviously these are my personal views and don't represent those of my
employer etc...

-Jon