RE: [SLUG] Hardware retailers supplying Linux preinatalled.

[Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@nospam.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jill Rowling wrote:

> Also I would want the retailer to sell a system whose hardware was in a
> known working state.
> Most people have little desire to debug their new machine's hardware and
> prefer to leave this to the retailer.
> The retailer, similarly, would prefer to sell a machine with the hardware
> and operating system in a known working state.
> It doesn't matter whether the os is Linux or something else; the retailer
> needs to check that the hardware is working with os before it leaves the
> shop.

I agree - if I buy a box with the OS already on it, I am 
assured that it's going to work. 

If  I was a newbie I could just let it run out of the box, 
with a few tweaks as needed. 

Since I am a professional, I can choose to delete the default setup 
once I am happy that the hardware is functioning.

UNIX is about choices, right?  ;)


rachel

Rachel Polanskis                 University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Senior UNIX Admin                PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747
Systems && Operations            Information Technology Services, Kingswood
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