Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work [LWN.net]

Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Posted Sep 11, 2003 21:11 UTC (Thu) by petem (guest, #14531)
Parent article: Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

this sounds like a free promo for DELL.... what really make me angry is
the fact that dell is still up MS's ass with it's licensing.. first
dell offered linux.. then removed the offer because of supposed lack of
demand... then they tried it again.. but this time it was only available
on certain pc's and then you still had to pay just as much.. (ie.. the
microsoft tax that is imposed on all pc's)... which was a joke in my
book.. now they get free press thanks to linux.. that's why i just
don;t by dell.. their half hearted attempts and their kiss up attitude
towards MS really does not jive with me..

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Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Posted Sep 13, 2003 23:24 UTC (Sat) by marko (guest, #15063) [Link]

On that subject... I've been trying to buy for the last couple of weeks some notebooks for work. We do only Linux/Unix work so first thing I ask suppliers: "can you *not* force me to buy Windows".

So far only Dell have responded with a yes, but only after I emailed Michael Dell (that in itself was very impressive, getting a phonecall the next day "hi, I'm following up on your email to Michael").

However, their offer is pretty idiotic:
"Yes I can have my notebooks delivered without an O/S, but I have to pay a penalty of 800 Euro per notebook"!!! in some cases almost the price of the notebook itself!

Still, waiting to hear from IBM/HP/Acer...

Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Posted Sep 18, 2003 4:58 UTC (Thu) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Dell's current notebook BIOS (A22) does not support XFree86. So, don't buy Dell notebooks if you want anything graphical above 640x480 (which you probably do).

Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Posted Sep 18, 2003 13:58 UTC (Thu) by duck (guest, #4444) [Link]

Hmmmm,

works for me with Debian (started with Knoppix) und SuSE8.2

Best wishes

duck

Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Posted Sep 19, 2003 17:50 UTC (Fri) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Do you have the model with the real video card (the ATI something)? That still works fine. Dell broke the onboard i845 card.