From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 01:23:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD1C16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (82-68-135-38.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.68.135.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4143FB1 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:23:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost.invalid (0-c-6e-e5-27-1.middleearth [192.168.1.194]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A6F133A9 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:23:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:23:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 References: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5863 DF82 C34D 7291 CC63 CA1B 17C2 2ED7 3379 5A2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org> Subject: Re: BSD support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:23:18 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:56, Timothy Opie wrote: > I did a BSD-Google search for laptop and notebook, and noticed that Dell > came up more than any other company. I have been contemplating getting the > Dell Inspiron 5150. Personally I can _strongly_ recommend that you do _not_ buy Dell. I ended u= p=20 taking them to court over a laptop which didn't work from the start, which= =20 they refused to to anything about when they heard it was running Linux... = =20 even though it was quite clearly a hardware problem. I guess with FreeBSD a conversation with "Dell support" (in quotes because = I=20 believe it to be somewhat of any oxymoron) would go along the lines of "Fre= e=20 what? Can't do anything about that, we only support the hardware, you have = to=20 be able to get the problem under Windows XP for us to do anything". http://developer.kde.org/~howells/inspiron =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/ueT6F8Iu1zN5WiwRAnZBAJ0URuWItQaNMz5N4+bRkpQzw8jFIgCeNZe+ kF8tBl7123ozq86kSPmqfUE=3D =3Df73l =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----