Brady Montz wrote:
> "John C. Flohr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "Last time I checked, Dell and others were the same as IBM."
> >
> > Classic Microsoft bashing here - no idea what you're talking about!
>
> I certainly think so for Dell.
>
> My company has had nice luck ordering various workstations and servers from
> Dell preconfigured with Linux. Dell did a solid job on the installation. Had
> no complaints about the linux installation. Now, I don't know what the price
> they charged was. But we live in a freely capitalist society, and Dell and IBM
> are free to charge what they want. As long as they are doing good installs,
> they are doing their job and I won't complain. Our job is to get demand to
> the point where the price comes down.
>From the Dell Website (I had to tweak the configs, as the Linux system
isn't available with all the same options, such as the gfx card, HW Raid is
unavailable, you can't get Firewire, 3D motion controller, there's a 15000
RPM drive that's unavailable, you can't get dual-head, etc.):
Workstation 620, 1GHz, Windows 2000 Professional, no MS Office,
GeForce2 GTS, no Operating System Support: $3417
Same system with Red Hat Linux instead, and support from LinuxCare: $3417
(prices from website 2/27/00)
I suspect you'd find the same thing at IBM or any other dealer that sells
both Windows and Linux systems, but I'm not going to bother to research
them all. This was enough work for one day. :-)
-W-
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