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Dell's New Linux Blog
comforteagle writes "I've just written up an interesting find: Linux engineers at Dell have started their own Linux site and weblog about Linux at Dell. From the announcement: "Welcome to the Dell Linux Community Web. This site is dedicated to providing any information that may be useful regarding your usage of Linux on your Dell equipment. While Dell primarily works with and officially supports Red Hat Linux, many of our customers choose to run other distributions." And perhaps more importantly it appears that the new site and weblog is run and maintained by the engineers themselves. It certainly has that 'made with vi' look." And kudyadi points to this PC Magazine interview with Michael Dell, in which Dell talks "about Dell's expanding product line, the company's late entrance into the Media Center space, and where the PC giant and the industry go from here." He touches on Linux just a bit, too.
you filthy sluts! FP+
You don't "write a find", you write *about* a find.
This story sucks.
One of the engineers, Gary Lerhaupt has a personal blog where he takes about this too.
It's a pretty interesting read. He has a lot of interesting takes on the future of Linux.
fuck you're funny you little homo. Is your hand rubbing your small cock? How can you type with the other up your asshole?
From the company that brought you the direct model in computing, we now bring you a direct link into our Linux team and their expertise.
Model in computing? Ahhh....so they want to show us how influencing Linux is done....yeah right Dell Dude.
Some aim to please, I aim to tease.
fucking gay nerds
weblog start YOU!
The blog should last about as long as it takes Michael Dell to take his tongue out of Bill Gate's bunghole.
His position on AMD processors way back when was, "... we don't use them because our customers want to know/see that there is an Intel CPU inside..." (At the time, he was servicing Andrew Grove).
Don't forget about the "looks like a standard ATX power supply, but it's not - HA HA - joke's on you DUDE - pay up!!"
I could go on and on, but I won't.
Some *funny* and *true* shit there!
George W. Bush is, like sooooooo cute! I saw him on TV the other day and he gave me that look and I was like OMG WTF ^__^!!11 I'm gonna vote for him in 2004 even if it means I can't marry my gay lover. Sorry bout that, Rob.
GWB touched my junk liberally. he strapped me in to his car and he couldnt keep his offensive hands off of me. he was performing many red flag touches. i couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. i told GWB the USA would not approve of a millionaire president touching an underage kid for free.
Can you believe it? GWB did all this. He picked me off the street, strapped my arms and legs down in the passenger seat, and just wouldn't stop fondling my cock'n'balls.
They definately were red flag touches. the goddamn secret service agent he had in the back seat kept on raising up this red flag every time he touched my junk but did GWB care? NO WAY! He just kept on doing it. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going on, indeed. I pleaded with Mr. Bush but to no avail. I told him the USA would not approve of such a wealthy man touching an underage kid like me (at the time I was 13) without at least compensating me for the trauma and the use of my body as his own personal plaything.
This got to him, worrying about his image. He continued to fondle me, all the while ignoring the agent's red flags. Then he drove to my house and *ejected the seat I was in*! It was amazing. But surprisingly, after I woke up the next morning, my bank account had $150k in it! Can you believe it?
At least Intel CPUs don't go up in flames if the cooling fails.
AMDs catch fire, possibly destroying the motherboard and the entire system if their cooling system fails.
Intel chips fail safe and turn themselves off.
Do you still think AMD is better value for money?
And how exactly do you sell a fire hazard to businesses?
Do the Dell engineers know that people nowadays use resolutions higher than 800x600? And even then only about 3/4 of the width is actually used!
YOU SHOULD FUCK HORSES!
The link takes you to sick and twisted stuff.
Who uses linux anyways... stupid hippies... next thing you know they'll all be living in communes...
;-)
More importantly if Mr. Dell is so brave and "right" why not stop being Bills bitch and just say "customers, you can have Windows, Linux, BSD or Nadda, it's *your* choice"?
That way he can still sell windows [which most will buy] and not be such a bitch.
Oh and rinse and repeat this with non-ATI graphics cards and non-Intel cpus. Then we should be set
Last time I checked the extra +200$ for a P4 of equal [and often lesser] performance than an athlon just ain't worth it.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
YOU DAMN FAGGOT KIKE! SUCK COMMANDER TACOS RAUNCHY ASS AND DIE OF AIDS!!!
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Dell sucks, there are no real engineers working there, only stupid business people. They deserve to die.
I'm afraid Dell is tired of being screwed around by their buddy, Bill Gates. There's an alternative and Dell has grabbed onto it. No more one PC one OS charges, I presume. I also expect commerce.euro.dell.com to be run off a usefull OS soon. A few years ago, Dell recommended Win3.1, what they recommend tomorrow is clear for all to see.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
As that alternate platform is technically superior, there is little reason to shell out big bucks for legacy software.
Sorry, I can't let this go. Linux is nice, Linux generally works, and I won't pretend I'm typing this on anything but my RedHat 9 Linux workstation.
But, Linux is only "technically superior" when you limit "superior" in some way.
Linux is quite stable. Linux has a modest security model. Linux compatability is generally decent. Linux is more modular and flexible than windows, allowing it to run on more hardware platforms.
But Linux is not better at all things than Windows.
For example, the kernel interface for drivers is just the pits. I mean, you either have to have open source drivers to build for your kernel release, or your equipment manufacturer has to have a binary for every possible kernel version and build!
I think that is retarded.
Linux has a very inconsistent UI, so that tech support for "Linux" is very difficult. For example, somebody can't "get online". Are you running Lindows? Mandrake? Red Hat? Suse? Slackware? Gentoo? KDE? Gnome? IceWM? Which version of each? What kernel build do you have installed?
Try walking somebody through setting up email over the phone sometime. And, sorry, if you disagree with me on this point, it's probably because you haven't done it with a Linux setup you didn't install yourself in the first place.
What Linux offers is not "technical superiority" but "political superiority". It's license is a good mix of open and closed.
--) Open enough that people don't get that "vendor lock-in" feeling, and can do what they want with it.
--) Closed enough that it remains cohesive enough that it can continue to grow and expand. (Unlike the BSD licensed Unix systems)
This makes Linux more of a marketplace or an environmental force than a mere product. Selling Linux-related services is becoming an industry in its own right.
In this light, due to the political security that Linux offers, it doesn't need to be "better" than Windows - it only needs to be "good enough" and cheap. It's both, so it will win unless something drastic fundamentally changes the marketplace.
Again, I use Linux routinely, I'm sitting in front of an Athlon, RH 9.0 Linux workstation, and get paid nicely for programming and sysadmin work.
But, I feel I'm also realistic about Linux's weaknesses as well as its strengths.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.