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Dell Forums - no Linux/OSS forum

150 points posted to Dell Community by phubert28 04/10/07 **IMPLEMENTED**

The Windows folk here, as well as some OSS folk, have called for a separate forum for Linux/OSS.

Dell FORUMS would be a good place to implement this, if Dell is about to offer machines with Linux pre-installed to the general public.

So.... might we know roughly when we could expect to see a new category under that portal??????

Expectantly,

phubert28 (aka 'the lost' phubert)
There is a Linux forum on the Forums and linux.dell.com.




phubert28
04/10/07		 just sitting here waiting for any sign of recognition from whoever from Dell might conceivably be viewing this site...
richard
04/10/07		 http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board?board.id=sw_linux
phubert28
04/10/07		 That's all well and good, Richard, but how do I find it from the main Dell Forums...? And, is it equivalent to the forums with plain links FROM the main site?

I _don't_ see that it should be only a _support_ forum, either...

So, "not there yet"???
phubert28
04/10/07		 These are the categories I see:

Tech Talk
Enterprise
Small Business
Windows Vista
Gaming
Digital Life
richard
04/10/07		 The (non-Dell) Linux community forum is found under Tech Talk. There is also linux.dell.com for your viewing pleasure.
badblood
04/10/07		 I was just reading some of the forum on linux and installing linux with windows is really complicated. Oh dear... Dell better do it for me or I'll just be calling up the service centers and screaming at them all day and night. Oh dear.
phubert28
04/11/07		 Richard,

Again, thanks for the references... however, it doesn't address the need to give Linux the same visibility as the other forums off the main page, now does it?

I realize that MAY be coming, but once more we are hearing nothing FROM Dell about its plans to implement a, shall we say, 'more aggressive' Linux policy?

And, once more, we see no official Dell presence in THIS forum.
phubert
05/01/07		 Well, THANK YOU

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/ideastorm/ideasinaction?c=us&l...
phubert
05/02/07		 @dell_admin1 - since I don't plan to login as phubert28 again (tho I COULD) ... could you DELETE this one as COMPLETED?

Thanks.
dell_admin1
05/03/07		 Changed status to **IMPLEMENTED**.
foxconnians4life
05/11/07		 I'll take my prize now, thank you. Cache please, 20's. I'll be picking up paycheck at 1:11 today.
 
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