Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "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

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/14/07, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "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

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"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 -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
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 distrib

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Warren Myers
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 actua

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
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 a

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
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 th

Re: Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread Julian Stacey
> 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:

Fwd: Dell is asking what free OS to preinstall

2007-03-13 Thread TooMany Secrets
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 providi