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Develop A "No OS" Compatibility Testing Tool

120 points posted to Service and Support by aikiwolfie Jan 25

Given that Dell are clearly behind and struggling to cope with the overwhelming and monumental task of running compatibility testing for bare systems, I thought it was time for Dells customer base to give something back to Dell and not just give Dell their hard earned cash. Which of course could be better spent on more important things like buying the girl friends those shoes and that dress we never hear the end of.

So I propose a simple idea. Dell should produce and distribute to it's customer base a simple to use automated bare systems compatibility testing pattern. The tool will then report directly back to Dell with the results. Immediately giving Dell a wealth of correlative data that will help them choose the best course of action. Which will free Dell from the need to follow the leader. Always of course in second place.

Think of it as a way to "Simplify IT" or as a laxative to the blockage that stops Dell from adding "NO OS" to the OS selection box for "every" PC in the Dell product line.

phubert
Jan 25		 :ROFL:

If you were posting at varlinux, we'd be using the "humor" category.

I haven't been able to detect any humor from Dell, however...
aikiwolfie
Jan 25		 I'm just wondering how long it'll survive before it gets ripped down. I'm hopping at least all the regulars get to see it.
phubert
Jan 25		 frogs, rabbits??? "hopping" ... hop scotch??? :-)
phubert
Jan 25		 but, you may help to keep DELL 'hopping', anyway!
jmxz
Jan 25		 Nicely done!
jorge
Feb 1		 I have the ISO image!
aikiwolfie
Feb 1		 Cool! Let us know how it goes ;o)
jorge
Feb 1		 Tested it today, works like a charm!
aikiwolfie
Feb 2		 Awesome!
jorge
Feb 4		 Update, I was able to optimize the installer, its 10% faster now. More testing in progress, I still need to test it on the new laptops and fileserver.
winoffice
May 15		 "No OS" is the exact opposite of having any software, so there is no need to test compatibility for it.
aikiwolfie
May 16		 I can't believe this is still alive.

winoffice please don't take this the wrong way but. Are you being deliberately anal? I mean seriously! This was a masterpiece of sarcasm!
jmxz
May 16		 @winoffice: "there is no need to test compatibility for it."

Then what could possibly be taking so long for Dell to get it on more systems?

It's a highly voted idea here. It's something many owners of Retail versions of OS's would be interested in. It's something many users of obscure OS's (solaris, bsd, etc) would be interested in.

One common reason presented for not putting Ubuntu or FreeDOS on more systems is compatibility testing; so it's not too much of a stretch to guess that the same issue (dictated by some bureaucratic process - not a technological need) is holding up this one too. Seen in that light, it might not even be sarcasm.
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