Re: [SLUG] Hardware retailers supplying Linux preinatalled.

[Paul Haddon <phaddon@nospam.mail.hartingdale.com.au>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:41:16PM +1000, Jill Rowling wrote:

> Also I would want the retailer to sell a system whose hardware was in a
> known working state.
[snip]
> 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.

You mean there are places that actually turn the machines on in the shop?
And here I thought they assembled them with cloned drives and let the
buyer do the smoke test...

Cheers

Paul Haddon
Technical Services Manager
Hartingdale Internet

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