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Today's Topics:
1. Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall (Peter A. Giessel)
2. Dell Linux survey (Scott I. Remick)
3. Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall (TooMany Secrets)
4. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
(Julian Stacey)
5. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
(Nikolas Britton)
6. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
(Nikolas Britton)
7. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall (Warren Myers)
8. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
(Nikolas Britton)
9. Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
(Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav )
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:34:35 -0800
From: "Peter A. Giessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
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Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD and
looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
It can't hurt anyway :)
http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
P.S., feel free to CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:49:01 -0400
From: "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Linux survey
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
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Due to the positive response they've gotten regarding people wanting
systems pre-installed with Linux, Dell has put a survey up:
http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
FreeBSD users might want to fill out the survey and at the end, choose
"other" for the distribution enter "FreeBSD". Can't hurt :)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:32:51 +0100
From: "TooMany Secrets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
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Sorry for the top-posting, but only one "to" was added, and wasn't this
list.
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of us
ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD
and
looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
Well... I was put a suggestion for FreeBSD, but thank's to my bad
english the most possible could be that anybody was read my
"suggestion".
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:28:23 +0100
From: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough of
> us
> ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about FreeBSD
> and
> looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007
That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
results in:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp
We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested.
If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience
at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives
at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact
us about the problem you have encountered.
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:23:01 -0500
From: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
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On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough
> > > of us
> > > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about
> > > FreeBSD and
> > > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the
> > > future.
>
> Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007
> That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
> results in:
>
> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp
> We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested.
> If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience
> at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives
> at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact
> us about the problem you have encountered.
>
Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get
to the survey select "Community Supported: Ubuntu" for the last
question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is
equivalent to FreeBSD.
Also... For question 2 "Which systems should we prioritize on for
Linux factory installation?" Put all of the notebooks at highest
priority.
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:17:57 -0500
From: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: "Julian Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough
> > of us
> > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about
> > FreeBSD and
> > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the future.
Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007
That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
results in:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp
We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested.
If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience
at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives
at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact
us about the problem you have encountered.
Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get
to the survey select "Community Supported: Ubuntu" for the last
question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is
equivalent to FreeBSD.
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:29:46 -0400
From: "Warren Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was
most
BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD?
WMM
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/13/07, Julian Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2007/3/13, Peter A. Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Dell is actually asking what Linux Distro to install, but if enough
of us
> > > ask for preinstalled FreeBSD, it might get them thinking about
FreeBSD and
> > > looking into providing support and especially drivers in the
> > > future.
>
> Tue Mar 13 21:28:11 CET 2007
> That URL http://www.dell.com/linuxsurvey
> results in:
>
>
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp
> We have encountered a problem while processing the page you requested.
> If you experience any technical problems with your shopping experience
> at dell.com, please contact one of our trained sales representatives
> at 1-800-WWW-DELL to quickly complete your transaction. Or contact
> us about the problem you have encountered.
>
Their website is being slashdotted right now. When you do finally get
to the survey select "Community Supported: Ubuntu" for the last
question. Ubuntu is based on Debian... Debian in many respects is
equivalent to FreeBSD.
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:45:51 -0500
From: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: "Warren Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
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On 3/13/07, Warren Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was under the impression that of the Linuces out there, Slackware was
most
BSD-ish? How is Debian like BSD?
That sounds about right, though I've only used Slackware once, a long
long long time ago. The question asks:
6) Which Linux distribution should Dell prioritize on?
a Commercial: Novell/SuSE Linux Desktop.
b Commercial: Red Hat Enterprise Desktop.
c Community Supported: Fedora.
d Community Supported: OpenSUSE.
e Community Supported: Ubuntu.
f Other.
From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and
maintained by individuals with no commercial backing. The Ubuntu /
Debian relationship would be equivalent to PC-BSD / FreeBSD. Umm and
last time I checked FreeBSD wasn't a Linux distribution so writing in
FreeBSD for option f is not applicable, you could write-in Slackware
though.
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:40:08 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav )
Subject: Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall
To: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From the choices available Ubuntu is the only one developed and
maintained by individuals with no commercial backing.
Ubuntu is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. (see
http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu).
DES
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