[Wolves] wishes

[Chris Owen]

Agreed.  Dual booting, as set up using one of the major distributions is
pretty much idiot proof providing your hardware is compatible -even I
have done it (and then found I had non-compatible hardware...).  I
bought a pre-installed box because I needed a new machine, and I wanted
to make sure that the machine I bought was entirely compatible (in terms
of hardware) with running Linux.  There are only a few firms offering
pre-installed Linux or dual-boot boxes, and the big firms that do it,
such as Evesham, seem to be very coy about advertising that they do.
When I was looking for a machine I actually contacted Evesham and asked
them which of their machines would support Linux, and they replied by
e-mail that none were.  Cue review of Linux equipped Evesham machine in
the next month's LXF.  So even their sales team don't know what the hell
they are doing.  There is a niche in the market as described - I hope
someone can make it pay, since if Novell's acquisition of both Ximian
and SuSE produces what it ought to, Linux is going to be far more
mainstream than hitherto, with a greater demand for pre-installed boxes.

Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: david [mailto:nux at blueyonder.co.uk] 
Sent: 05 November 2003 10:09
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] wishes

Manchester?


my point precisely

i am using linux on a dual boot machine
i did it myself
it's laughably easy if you start with an empty harddrive and use
redhat/slackware/mandrake
perhaps that's just me

(i love the way that mandrake takes less time to set up more software
from 3 cd's than xp does from 1 - i suppose Linux knocks 20 minutes off
the install time by not rebooting every 10 minutes all through the setup
routine)

nux


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:06:29 -0000
"Chris Owen" <Chris.Owen at wmro.org> wrote:

> Don't know about repairs and parts, but I could do worse than
recommend
> that anyone who wants a pre-installed Linux box contacts Digital
> Networks in Manchester (www.dnuk.com) who built my home machine.  They
> will even dual-boot for you if you wish...
> 
> Chris 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david [mailto:nux at blueyonder.co.uk] 
> Sent: 04 November 2003 19:11
> To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
> Subject: [Wolves] wishes
> 
> I want to open a computer shop in birmingham
> and sell spare parts and reconditioned pc's as well as new stuff
> and pre-installed linux boxes
> and no windows cd's/machines in sight
> and it will be called the Penguin Cafe
> though there will be no orchestra
> and no coffee (for sale)
> 
> just plenty of smiles and help
> and a live connection to linuxquestions
> 
> anyone seen an old tatty oil lamp around?
> 
> aladdinux
> 
> (this is response to another friend being patronised and ripped off
> by what i thought was a decent, local computer shop - a small shop,
not
> a big chain shop)
> 
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