Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

[Robert Vogel]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corey Osgood" 
To: "Danny Piccirillo" 
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell
> Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> > I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's
> > IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to
> > ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed.
> > http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549 Maybe we can build up
> > support for this idea again?
>
> Hmm, what exactly does acknowledged mean, anyways? Seems like all it
> means is, "hey, we saw it". I don't think that until we can get Windows
> Vista running on a Core 2 Duo system that dell will seriously consider
> this idea. I could be wrong, and really hope I am, as I'd love to see
> them actually help with this.
>
> -Corey

I can't imagine why you want Windows Vista running on a machine that you 
took the trouble to configure with LinuxBIOS.
Why would you do that ? I'm beginning to think that a LinuxBIOS machine may 
first come from embedded style boxes.
OLPC is a pretty good role model. Don't you think ?

[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell

[Corey Osgood]

Robert Vogel wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Osgood"
>
> To: "Danny Piccirillo" 
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 11:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS from Dell
> > Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> > > I'm sure some of you are aware that LinuxBIOS appeared on Dell's
> > > IdeaStorm website. At some point the status was set to
> > > ***ACKNOWLEDGED*** by a Dell admin but has since been removed.
> > > http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549 Maybe we can build up
> > > support for this idea again?
> >
> > Hmm, what exactly does acknowledged mean, anyways? Seems like all it
> > means is, "hey, we saw it". I don't think that until we can get Windows
> > Vista running on a Core 2 Duo system that dell will seriously consider
> > this idea. I could be wrong, and really hope I am, as I'd love to see
> > them actually help with this.
> >
> > -Corey
>
> I can't imagine why you want Windows Vista running on a machine that
> you took the trouble to configure with LinuxBIOS.
> Why would you do that ? I'm beginning to think that a LinuxBIOS
> machine may first come from embedded style boxes.
> OLPC is a pretty good role model. Don't you think ?

*I* don't want Vista on my LinuxBIOS machine. *Dell* would. I ran the
Vista betas for a while. I wasn't impressed, and haven't rushed out to
purchase it yet. LinuxBIOS already runs on a handful of embedded
mainboards, etc, look up the LinuTop for one example, and there are more
in the wiki.

-Corey