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  • From: "Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!!!!
  • Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:04:12 -0500


El dia Dimarts 19 Març 2002 01:42 pm, no tenies res mes que fer i vas i
m'envies aquest mail:
> Well, yes and no,

> I just took another look at the Dell site in more detail just a minute
> ago. You are right in that a number of their PC model lines only let you
> select various versions of MS Windows - and the available versions of
> Windows also vary from model of computer to model of computer. However
> you CAN still get a Linux Dell, albeit with very limited choices. Go to
> "Workstations" and select the "Dell Precision Workstation 530." When you
> click on "Customize It", the first choice it asks you to make makes
> absolutely no sense at all

It is so difficult to get there that a random Joe Sixpack or Mary Soccermom
will be unable to even find it.

So much for "we offer Linux with all those Dell models...". I tried a few
choices (a few desktop configurations, a couple of laptops, not all, heck,
I'm working!) and I was unable to see "Linux" either as a replacement for
Windows or as an "added software", by the side of Windows.

> Now, in addition to this workstation and server you apparently can still
> get Linux on their PCs and laptops, however only if you develop your own
> software image to use RH7.2 and order the machines through their "Custom
> Factory Integration" department.

To me it sounds like "[Leith Honda] ...yeah, we offer BOSE speakers with all
our Honda cars. But, then, you can only get those peakers if you ask for
low-profile tires AND a yellow painting. Then we will give you the choice of
side-AirBags or BOSE speakers. And, also, on the Honda Passport SUV, last
year model, when you ask for the 3rd row of seats and the 2.5L engine you can
end having BOSE speakers if the sales-rep is named Bill. But of course, you
will see no more advertisements on TV nor on the web about BOSE speakers
pre-built into our Hondas."

When it is that "hidden" and so little "obious", maybe is a glitch in their
website, froim the old one, but pointing now to non-existing opitons.



Salut,
Josep
--
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, QA-Test Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/




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