Dell maybe still does this. They used to a while ago.On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, doug wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of > > System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do > > some comparison shopping. > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > I think I've heard that Asus will ship with Linux, and perhaps also eMachines, > altho from what I read, > eMachines does not have a good record. All vendors I've read about ship with > Ubuntu, so if you don't > want that, you'll have to install something else yourself, and/or set up a > dual boot with 2 Linux distros. > That works fine--I have 3 distros plus XP on this Dell laptop. From any of the > Linuxes, you can access > the files the others and XP. Unfortunately, I can't access the Linux files > from XP. If I had set up > the Linuxes on exp2 or exp3 I think I could have found a program that lets XP > communicate with > them, but I didn't. > > Hint: if you run more than one Linux distro, within each Documents directory, > put a filename > that says pclos, or ubuntu, or whatever, so when you select a partition, you > can figure out what > system you're accessing. Otherwise it gets confusing! There might be an > easier way, but I don't know it. > > --doug > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1112091929410.98...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
