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Aleks A.-Lessmann
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: PC Choice |
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:02 +0100, houghi wrote:
| Quote: | Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
Pity, as I was a fan of Dell, but I could as well have bought one with
XP and have installed Ubuntu myself on it. The difference was only 100
EUR.
100EUR less or more for the XP version? If more, why pay for it? If
less, I can understand.
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More. And I might have paid for it because sometimes I sadly need XP in
my line of work. But you are right, and the 100 EUR were a tiny part of
the reason I bought the Ubuntu version instead of the XP version.
| Quote: | So now you have one with Ubuntu pre-installed. You could install it
yourself, just as you would with the XP version or if it were a blank
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True, but I expect that a notebook sold with a pre-installed OS means
that the vendor has tweaked the installation so that the OS works
perfectly (well, realistically near-perfectly) with the hardware. Dell
has not done anything of the like with this Notebook. Not at all.
Hence the warning from my side that the pre-installed Ubuntu on my Dell
notebook means absolutely nothing that joe average user can't do
himself. And that is less than I had expected, and less than Dell has
accustomed me to expect.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Re: PC Choice |
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In <8LqdnQ92nq-idojUnZ2dnUVZ_uOdnZ2d@giganews.com>, on 11/08/2008
at 02:40 PM, "Paul E. Lehmann" <someone@anywhere.com> said:
| Quote: | From: "Paul E. Lehmann" <someone@anywhere.com
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If you want to munge, use the invalid TLD, e.g., someonr@anywhere.invalid.
| Quote: | Reply-To: noone@somewhere.com
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If you don't want e-mail responses then don't use a Reply-To. You might
want to add Mail-Copies-To: nobody to your headers.
| Quote: | Does anyone have any preferences for either Dell
or HP for running Linux?
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Yes, I prefer not to. Have you considered Pogo?
| Quote: | I was wondering if down the line after installing
Suse, it would also be possible to install Ubuntu
or Kbuntu on another partition and have the boot
loader recognize the "doze" and also both linux
distros.
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Il va sans dire! s long as you have enough disk space and can keep track
of who did what to whom. OTOH, you might want to look at the available
virtualization options.
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