[TriLUG] Debian on Dell

[Faheem Mitha]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 23:44, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure of the best way to go about putting together a machine from
> > Dell which has good general Linux support as opposed to Red Hat support.
>
> AFIK, the only thing you have to worry about from Dell or any other OEM
> is hardware, and that's all in the kernel anyway so your distro
> shouldn't matter.  Unless you mean Dell's telephone support saying "We
> don't support that." if you mention you're not using RH, which is an
> entirely different matter.

Well, often Red Hat ships patched kernels. Also, there do exist binary
drivers created specifically for certain Redhat versions (ugh).

                                                                 Faheem.