N series, inventory & diagnostic tools, winmodems, kvm,...
Kiat Huang
khuang at redhat.com
Sun Nov 5 18:33:47 CST 2006
Hi,
Not too early for a wishlist I hope ;)
We're running a couple of thousand Linux desktops and laptops in house and
we've used Dell and other systems for many years. Currently, from some countries
we already get N series (FreeDOS, not Windows, installed), and this is great.
Although we re-install our build (based on RHEL) it would be good if Dell
sold Latitudes with hardware that all ran on a modern version of Linux: and
it surely couldn't hurt sales ;)
Off the top of my head here are a few personal wishlist items:
- Standardization. N series in all Dell markets not just a few.
- Inventory management tools. We have built some that get BIOS info using
dmidecode, but would be interesting to see a Dell offering.
- Better Linux support for the Dell installed winmodems: dialup in some
countries (esp. developing ones) is still very useful.
- Linux hardware diagnosis tools (porting the Dell Diagmostics CD?)
similar to the server diagnostic tools.
- What about restoring the ability to look at the BIOS from the OS via
Fn-F1 (or was it Fn-Esc) on older Latitudes?
- ability to use a laptop's screen to view another system display's
output: e.g. as a kvm for a headless server
Cheers,
Kiat
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