Looking for other OEM's that Pre-install Kubuntu

[Greg Booth]

The other thing that's NOT in bold is that there's NO software support for this.

Only hardware support.

I'm not sure if this means operating system or installed software only.

Greg

On 6/27/07, Chris <kubuntu at eportel.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:36 +0500, Farid Ansari wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > I do not know much about your problems but wanted to tell you that I
> > read today in the PC World of July 2007 that Dell will their PCs with
> > Kubuntu 7.04 preinstalled.
> > Cheers,
> > Farid
> > Karachi, Pakistan
> >
> >
> > On 6/27/07, Chris <kubuntu at eportel.com> wrote:
> >         Hello all,
> >         I am new to Linux (although I worked with Suse for 9
> >         months...I still
> >         feel rather lost) but trying to learn as much as possible in
> >         the
> >         shortest amount of time...I don't feel that successful so far.
> >
> >         I'm the owner of a small computer manufacturing and service
> >         company.
> >         I'm trying very very hard to offer  most model computers with
> >         Kubuntu
> >         preinstalled. However it has not been easy.  First, the
> >         documentation
> >         compared to Ubuntu is little.  I bought a book on Ubuntu and
> >         it's pretty
> >         good at explaining everything about Ubuntu...but none of the
> >         Gnome
> >         specific information applies directly to Kubuntu.  It's really
> >         a major
> >         waste of time translating nearly everything that is taught
> >         about Gnome
> >         (Ubuntu) and trying to find the equivalent of that application
> >         in
> >         Kubuntu.
> >
> >         Second, there are many questions of the best way to produce,
> >         test and
> >         sell PC's with Linux on them...I can't seem to learn enough
> >         about Linux
> >         (Kubuntu) fast enough...maybe if I knew more...some of these
> >         question
> >         would be answered by me....I hope. Sometimes I feel that some
> >         of the
> >         questions and problems that I run across never really get
> >         resolve
> >         completely....that is scary in a retail/OEM market where we
> >         have to
> >         solve customers support needs in a timely manor.
> >
> >
> >
> >         As an OEM I would like the Kubuntu PC to have the ability to
> >         run very
> >         well with the add on features that makes Kubuntu (and Linux in
> >         general)
> >         what it should be. I'm referring to things like Beryl Desktop
> >         effects
> >         and menus that make sense.  Most customers will be coming
> >         straight from
> >         MS Windows XP so there may be some minor mods and
> >         configuration changes
> >         that should be made prior to the release or delivery of the
> >         machine.
> >         Using the OEM installation off the Kubuntu Alternate CD is a
> >         good
> >         start..but I'm not sure it's all that I would need.
> >
> >         What I'm asking is...is there any other OEM/systems builders
> >         (professionals please) out there that does what I am trying to
> >         do that
> >         is willing to share their experience with me as to supporting
> >         Kubuntu to
> >         the end user, hardware setup (which I have done a lot of
> >         testing) such
> >         as chipset's that are being used and other information related
> >         to this?
> >
> >         I talked with Dell (really didn't want to do that!) to dig
> >         into the
> >         hardware information that they are using with there new PC's
> >         that come
> >         with Ubuntu.  After the mixed results testing lots of
> >         different Intel
> >         chipsets and CPUs I just wanted to see what Dell was willing
> >         to use in
> >         their computers and try some of that.
> >         I would like to find out if anybody else has attempted the
> >         testing that
> >         I have and what the results were...if any.
> >
> >         Any feed back would be great appreciated.
> >
> >         Thanks very much for any input on this subject.
> >
> >         Chris
> >
> >
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> Hi Farid,
> I spoke with Dell about there efforts.  It's Ubuntu that will be
> installed on 3 models. 2 Desktops (XPS and Dimension) and a Laptop
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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