[TriLUG] "The Linux Experience" at Dell, a tale of woe and wow. VERY LONG

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

So far my experiences with Ubuntu (kubuntu actually), have been okay. A
few things that have angered me have been the "legal" pieces that
prevent you from installing some things. 

I've also had issues with some packages not showing up in Add/Remove
programs, but they show up in adept_manager. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Douglas A. Whitfield
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:16 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] "The Linux Experience" at Dell,a tale of woe and
wow. VERY LONG

I love my ubuntu Dell laptop, but it had some resolution issues out of
the box.  I was able to get that fixed, but that broke the video (as in
codec related).  It's watchable now, but not great.

On 8/29/07, Michael Tharp <gxti at partiallystapled.com> wrote:
>
> William Sutton wrote:
>
> > Greece.
>
> <homer>
> Mmmmm, grease.
> </homer>
>
> ...
>
> On a more relevant note: I would expect much much worse from Dell than

> what Chris has described here. I'm surprised Dell really supports 
> their Linux systems at all considering how much of an investment is
involved.
> It does, however, seem like they're off to a good start. Always keep 
> in mind that every step counts; one can't really expect global 
> recognition and support - of an OS that no hardware manufacturer has 
> ever sold to the average consumer before - to happen overnight.
>
> -- m. tharp
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