Bad OOBE
A bit over a year ago I purchased a new Dell server sans O/S to set up a Linux system at my house. It’s happily humming away in a corner, running Mandriva 10, doing a variety of tasks. Thinking of switching to SuSE, for no apparent reason. But that’s another post for another day.
A couple of weeks ago I ordered a new Dell desktop to be used for my development machine. Nice specs… 4GB of fast RAM, 250GB x 2 in a RAID1 configuration, dual core CPU, dual video outputs… it’s a nice box. And it, too, came without an O/S installed. Wow, talk about bad OOBE. More…

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