Linux Install Woes

[Leigh Honeywell]

Quoting Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:22:44AM -0500, John Wildberger wrote:
> > This is a follow up to my inquiry.
> > Thanks for all the good advice I got. As it turned out I had a lemon.
> Returned
> > the computer and got another one. Same HP pre-installed WIN XP package.
> > Installed Linux and works just fine.
>
> How amusing.  Yesterday The Register had an article where a very large
> computer dealer in Europe had asked what exactly HP did given they
> didn't design chips anymore, didn't build motherboards, etc.  HP seemed
> to claim they provided brand and quality.  Your machine sure didn't
> sound like a quality machine if it was a lemon. :)
>
> I guess what HP does is sell stuff they might have spec'd and had
> someone else build, and charge a fortune for putting ink in small
> plastic boxes. :)
>
> Lennart Sorensen

The confusion deepens when other vendors (namely Cisco) re-sell HP stuff.  It's
a veritable pyramid of re-selling and re-labelling!

-Leigh
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