Not in Australia
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| Author | Content |
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| tracyanne Jul 24, 2008 12:51 AM EDT |
Still not available in Australia. Dell can go jump. |
| cabreh Jul 24, 2008 5:12 AM EDT |
tracyanne you amaze me. You want a laptop/desktop with Ubuntu pre-installed? Say it ain't so! :) |
| jdixon Jul 24, 2008 7:23 AM EDT |
> You want a laptop/desktop with Ubuntu pre-installed? Say it ain't so! No. She wants a laptop/desktop which is guaranteed Linux compatible. She'll immediately reload it with Mandriva, of course. |
| techiem2 Jul 24, 2008 8:22 AM EDT |
hah. Exactly one of the main reasons I bought a ZaReason. Besides supporting a good group of people, I knew that I would be able to unbox it and load up gentoo with minimal hassle. :) (Of course, I still have the Ubuntu install on it - they happily custom partitioned the disk for me, I just never boot it) |
| gus3 Jul 24, 2008 9:13 AM EDT |
Quoting:load up gentoo with minimal hassleSomehow, "Gentoo" and "minimal hassle" don't quite sound right that close together. ;-) |
| thenixedreport Jul 24, 2008 11:54 AM EDT |
Has anyone from Australia written to Dell and asked them why they're not offering their Ubuntu-based systems to said country? |
| tracyanne Jul 24, 2008 1:15 PM EDT |
thenixed, yes, I got no reply. I also spoke to the highest level person I could get to, at Dell Australia, Actually it's in South East Asia. I was told they are a customer focused company, and as such only supply what the customer wants. That was last year. I'm sure I wrote about it on Lxer. @cabreh, what jd said. |
| azerthoth Jul 24, 2008 4:43 PM EDT |
Interestingly I recieved my Dell catalog today, lots and lots of really neat stuff in it except for one thing. There is no mention of Linux being available anywhere in it. Way to tote that bale Dell. |
| TxtEdMacs Jul 25, 2008 11:33 AM EDT |
G@3,Quoting:Somehow, "Gentoo" and "minimal hassle" don't quite sound right that close together. Yes it's officially known as an oxymoron, e.g. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/oxymoron For those that hate links: Quoting:A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. |
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