On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Brian K. White
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred A. Miller"
To: "opensuse" Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:25 PM Subject: [opensuse] To answer the XPS question concerning preloaded Ubuntun on on a Dell XPS.......... Electronista | Dell brings Linux to XPS M1330
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/23/dell.xps.m1330.with.linux/
Last time I looked on the Dell site (admittedly a while ago) they were limiting the hardware options for the linux version. You couldn't get the ABGN adapter or EVDO, or the fastest cpu, less ram etc possibly no bluetooth, etc etc don't remember about blueray or the remote control, camera, LED backlight version of the screen etc..
You get what they are willing to support today. Why in hell would a vendor sell you a bundled system with things they can't yet support? Why would you grouse about the fact that they didn't want to? You can always buy it with free-DOS on it. If you buy from the small-business division you can even buy it with NO Operating system.
Lot's of dumb limitations based presumably on the lack of drivers or software that they could officially support or redistribute.
Call it dumb if you will, from a business perspective, it makes perfect sense to refuse to sell you something they don't have. If they sold you vaporware you would slag them for that as well. They did license and bundle WinDVD to allow them to ship a DVD player solution that did not violate anyone's patents. As far as I can tell, that is the only piece of software on the machine that had a pop-up license notification. HP claims to have machines that are sold with Linux, but just try to find them. Dell went further and have a good bundle. Emperor Linux goes farther, but they cost way more. -- ----------JSA--------- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org