From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 20:43:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4D137B405; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:43:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id UAA09568; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:43:40 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: Mark Hughes Cc: Bill Schoolcraft , Flemming Froekjaer , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows (revised) In-Reply-To: <026601c0ee0f$d4712980$0200a8c0@mark2> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 5 Jun 2001 it looks like Mark Hughes composed: MH-->> > I was looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 8000, but there was no option to MH-->> > buy it without a windows os. MH-->> MH-->> http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/topics/linux_products_latitude.htm MH-->> MH-->> http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/topics/linux_products_inspiron.htm MH--> MH--> MH-->Hmm - if you actually click on the "buy" link though it still lists Windows in the stuff MH-->that comes installed....I think this page is just saying that it is compatible. MH--> ..... hmmm, I'll have to check into that for I'm the guy doing support for those two models when Dell sells them with Linux. I just had a customer today say she couldn't find the link to buy one. Thanks for the heads_up. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message