-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sudev Barar on Sunday 25 Sep 2005 06:47 wrote:
> On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [SNIP] >> Something which is preferred by you isn't at all preferred by me. When I >> bought my laptop, it came shipped with Mandrake Linux, which I'm sure you >> like, but wasn't my preferred choice. So what do I do, say that the >> company > > Which laptop was that? AFAIK Compaq does ship with mandrake but it has > pcdos pre-installed and you are given a sealed pack Mandrake thatyou > install atyourown risk with no support by them. > Compaq Presario 2203AL. In fact they had removed Linux and installed Windows XP on it before demonstrating it to me. :-) I'm not sure if FreeDOS was also available as an option or not. But the offer covered Linux. > [SNIP] >> BTW, whatever distribution ACER shipped with its laptop, does it cover >> support ? If yes, bug them. > > That is what I have been doing in my instance. But Limpus Linux is > really a small CLI distro that even if they supported would not get > things done for me. "me". That's what I was trying to address. We all have different choices. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research." "Necessity is the mother of invention." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDNgHX4Rhi6gTxMLwRAt4MAKCF+4aTBi/EB8puXsWFbFKPARfEnACeKp1W oz0MhQMjnOsMXQgIZ6bJk9U= =LZxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
