Dell Open Source Notebooks
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orlandinho
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Dell Open Source Notebooks
i am looking the posibility of buying a Dell notebook, i found an open-source notebook dell is offering, it just comes with FreeDOS,
and it's cheaper than notebooks coming with windows installed
i prefer it comes without windows because i want to install linux and XP by myself
have any of you bought this notebook or have worked with them?
any opinion would be helpful, thnks
and it's cheaper than notebooks coming with windows installed
i prefer it comes without windows because i want to install linux and XP by myself
have any of you bought this notebook or have worked with them?
any opinion would be helpful, thnks
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I would recommend buying one of their system with Linux installed. The reviews I have read say the things just work out of the box.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segt ... l=en&s=dhs
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segt ... l=en&s=dhs
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alex.barylski
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Aggghh...
Never buy a laptop with pre-installed anything...who cares about out-of-the-box...your a geek...it's less headache to setup everything yourself then have to remove non-essential crap...even if it is open source...I'm willing to bet there is garbage on there you don't need...
I'll *never* buy a laptop with anything installed again...
End of rant
Never buy a laptop with pre-installed anything...who cares about out-of-the-box...your a geek...it's less headache to setup everything yourself then have to remove non-essential crap...even if it is open source...I'm willing to bet there is garbage on there you don't need...
I'll *never* buy a laptop with anything installed again...
End of rant
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orlandinho
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i am thinking of buying a dell notebook with linux preinstalled,
in my case because i dont live in USA, a relative is going for some days and he's gonna bring me the notebook
with linux preintalled i assure there would not be any problem when installing drivers or with any component of the notebook
and i haven´t found any comment about dell notebooks comming with FreeDOS
in my case because i dont live in USA, a relative is going for some days and he's gonna bring me the notebook
with linux preintalled i assure there would not be any problem when installing drivers or with any component of the notebook
and i haven´t found any comment about dell notebooks comming with FreeDOS