"Jean-Marc V. Liotier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13/11/2002 (15:11) : > Could you please substantiate that with some facts ? I agree that Dell > is not the best for reliability (they don't survive rough nomadic lives, > although they are fine as movable desktops) and that given enough cash I > would rather buy from IBM. But we have a gaggle of Dell laptops and find > them to be a good compromise given the price. I'm currently typing on an > Inspiron 4000 with Debian and I am quite satisfied. But then I never > asked Dell for Linux support : all I have done I did myself with a > little community support.
http://www.lanfear.com/dell/ According to one that had this laptop The point is that you get the answer : "We don't support Linux" from Dell, while from Acer they said he could return the laptop if it didn't work with Linux. -- Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «There are three things you can do to a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.» - Justine, by Lawrence Durrell
