If you buy it with Linux already installed on it from IBM, it is supported then. Otherwise, you are on your own. Personal experience here on the latter.
--- Crawford > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Broughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Which Desktop replacement. > > > > Here's a vote in favor of IBM Thinkpads over Dell machines. Not > to start a > > flame war, but I've had a Dell Inspiron 5000 and 8100 and currently a > > Thinkpad A30p. The engineering and build quality of the IBM > machine is far > > better than the Dells. It also seems to have less of the hardware/BIOS > > "quirks" that laptops are famous for. Featurewise, they are similar. The > > Dells are cheaper, the IBMs are more solid. Good luck. > > > No flames from me. That pretty much sums it up - price vs. > quality. Not a > big difference either way, but Dell IS renowned for bad BIOSes. > What's the > status of IBM support for Linux in the retail market, these days? Dell > certainly won't give you any, so if you don't feel up to doing it yourself > (not hard) Dell isn't the way to go. > -- > derek > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
