From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20854 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2004 21:23:45 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 27 Aug 2004 21:23:45 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0oCF-0006fM-Nb for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:23:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 22852 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2004 21:23:42 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7797 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2004 21:23:42 +0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:23:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <9999810b040823123628caf4be@mail.gmail.com> <9999810b040827072318edf359@mail.gmail.com> <1093633226.5249.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1093633226.5249.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408272323.43471.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Catalyst Woes X-Archives-Salt: bb6fd1b8-101e-483c-9229-d03bc539ca52 X-Archives-Hash: e4ed7196b9bbfbd37f21ffa80c4d8765 On Friday 27 August 2004 21:00, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Ahh, yes. Dell... the bane of my existence. I will tell you right now > that I am seriously *not* impressed with Dell machines anymore. I have > had nothing but problems from many of them. I have a GX110 that I use > as a test machine that seems to work fine, but Dell is known to use some > really crappy CDROMs in their machines. Dell is indeed terible. One thing that is of the utmost importance is to avoid their lowest cost line. For the price one can get a decent pc from a "white" assembler dell will deliver a machine with substandard c-brand hardware, but a nice dell logo on the case. For other machines these socalled A-brands like to have custom hardware, which of course is not allways working up to expectations. Paul ps. Maybe try on other machines that do not come from DELL -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list